The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia:Margaritiferidae)

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The complete mitogenomes of one (M-)ale (North America), one Hermaphroditic (Europe), and two(F-)emale (North America and Europe) individuals of the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera were sequenced. The M-type and F-type (Female and Hermaphroditic) mitogenomes have 17,421 and 16,122 nucleotides, respectively. All with the same content: 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, two ribosomal RNA genes, and one sex-related ORF. The M-type is highly divergent (37.6% uncorrected p-distance) from the F-type mitogenomes. North American and European F-type mitogenomes exhibit low genetic divergence (68nt substitutions), and the Female and Hermaphroditic Europeanmitogenomes are almost identical, and matching sex-related ORFs.

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Gomes-dos-Santos A., Froufe E., Amaro R., Ondina, P. et al. (2019) The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae), Mitochondrial DNA B Part B, 4: 1417–20

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This work was supported by Portuguese Foundation for Science andTechnology (FCT) [grant number SFRH/BD/115728/2016 (MLL), grant number SFRH/BD/137935/2018 (AGS)]; Russian Foundation for BasicResearch [grant number 18-34-20033 (IVV)]; Dawson Fellowship at St.Catharine’s College, Cambridge (DCA); Life Margal Ulla [number LIFE09NAT/ES/000514 (RA and PO)]; COMPETE 2020, Portugal 2020 and the European Union through the ERDF, and by Portuguese Foundation forScience and Technology (FCT) through national funds [UID/Multi/04423/2019] under project ConBiomics: the missing approach for the Conservation of freshwater Bivalves Project, and [project number NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-030286]; Federal Agency for Scientific Organizationsunder Grants [grant number 0409-2015-0143 (INB and IVV)

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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)