==== Front Mitochondrial DNA B Resour Mitochondrial DNA B Resour Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources 2380-2359 Taylor & Francis 10.1080/23802359.2019.1693930 1693930 Version of RecordResearch Article Mitogenome Announcement Complete mitochondrial genome of the snakehead (Channa gachua) and its phylogeny B. He et al.He Bin a Liu Xingguo b Huan Yingying a Che Xuan b Yan Tao a Yan Jungang a Long Zhihai a Li Bin c Wen Zheng-Yong c a The Fishery Institute of the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yibin, China; b Fishery Machinery and Instrument Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai, China; c College of Life sciences, Conservation and Utilization of Fishes resources in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, China CONTACT Zhihai Long 604863784@qq.comThe Fishery Institute of the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yibin644000, China;Zheng-Yong Wen zhengyong_wen@126.comCollege of Life sciences, Conservation and Utilization of Fishes resources in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan641100, China 20 11 2019 2019 4 2 4174 4175 © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.2019The Author(s)This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Abstract In present study, the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Channa gachua was determined and the phylogenetic relationship of Channidae fish was reconsidered. The mitogenome of the C. gachua is 16547 bp in length, containing 13 protein coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosome RNA genes (rRNAs), a control region (D-loop) and an origin region of replication on the light-strand (OL). The overall nucleotide composition is 28.32% A, 26.58% T, 29.41% C, 15.69% G, with 54.90% AT, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that C. gachua belongs to the genus Channa and shares a close relationship with C. marulius and C. striata. Keywords Channa gachuamitochondrial genomephylogenetic analyses ==== Body Channa gachua (Hamilton 1822), is a small and colorful fish species of family Channidae (Jearranaiprepame 2017), it is widely distributed in Asia, and now it has been listed as an endangered species in Singapore and China (Paray et al. 2017). Thus far, most researches related to this species are mainly focused on nutritional value calculation (Hariati et al. 2019), environmental indication (Ali et al. 2019), morphological identification (Jearranaiprepame 2017) and pathogenic biology (Chaudhary et al. 2019). However, the phylogenetic status of this species is still unclear due to its limited genetic information. Here, we determined the mitogenome of C. gachua using the NGS sequencing technology. Specimens were collected from Jinghong city in Yunnan province of China (100.80°E, 22.01°N), and a juvenile (Te-Cg2017-01) was deposited in the Herbarium of Neijiang Normal University. The mitogenome of C. gachua (GenBank: MF924390) is 16547 bp in length, which is similar to those of the other Channid fishes. The overall nucleotide composition is 28.32% A, 26.58% T, 29.41% C, 15.69% G, with 54.90% AT, which is consistent with that in C. asiatica, C. maculate and C. striata (Wang et al. 2013; Meng and Zhang 2016). Meanwhile, the circular molecule possesses a typical piscine mitochondrial order comprising 13 PCGs, 2 rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, a D-loop and an OL regions, suggesting the structures of fish mitogenome are highly conserved (Wen et al. 2017; Li R et al. 2019). Phylogenetic analyses were performed using Maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian analysis (BI) methods based on two concatenated datasets of 13 PCGs at both nucleotide and amino acid levels. The tree was clustered into two groups of family Channidae and other families, and the Channidae group was further divided into two clades of genus Channa and genus Parachanna (Figure 1). Similar results also can be found in several previous molecular and morphological studies (Benziger et al. 2011; Little et al. 2012), which further confirms that the family Channidae comprises of genera Channa and Parachanna. In addition, both trees showed that the C. gachua, C. striata and C. marulius were grouped in one clade (Figure 1), suggesting their close relationship. These findings will undoubtedly provide useful genetic information about C. gachua, which also can be selected as a new genetic marker for studying population genetics. Figure 1. Phylogenetic analyses infer the relationship among Channid fishes. Two methods including maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inferences (BI) were used to reconstruct the trees at both nucleotide (A) and amino acid (B) levels. The tree topologies produced by ML and BI analyses were equivalent. Bayesian posterior probability (blue number) with 2,000,000 generations and bootstrap support values for ML analyses (black number) with 1000 replicates are shown on the nodes. The C. gachua is shown in red type. GenBank accession numbers of mitogenomes are presented after the taxon name. Beaufortia kweichowensis (Wen et al. 2017) was selected as an outgroup. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. ==== Refs References Ali H , Ali W , Ullah K , Akbar F , Khan H 2019 Assessment of Cu and Zn in water, sediments and in the carnivorous fish, Channa gachua from River Swat and River Barandu, Malakand Division, Pakistan . Iran J Sci Technol Trans Sci . 43 (3 ):773 –783 . 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