The complete mitochondrial genome of the breed Ningbo brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)

We used NGS technologies to resequence the complete mitochondrial genome of (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus). The complete mitochondrial genome of the breed Ningbo brown-marbled grouper is a 16,373 bp circular molecule, which contains 37 typical mitochondrial genes (13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, and 22 tRNAs) and a D-loop. Its gene arrangement pattern is the same as the accession no. KP013758. Comparing to accession no. KP013758 sequence, the D-loop region is much shorter. ATG is the most common start codon, and TAA is the most common stop codons; the 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA are located between the tRNA(Phe) and tRNA(Leu) genes and are separated by the tRNA(Val) gene. Phylogenetic trees indicated E. fuscoguttatus has close relative with Epinephelus coioides and Epinephelus malabaricus.