Siberian dace

The Siberian dace (Leuciscus baicalensis) is a freshwater species of cyprinid fish, found in Siberian rivers draining to the Arctic Ocean, from the Ob to the Kolyma in the east, as well as in Mongolia and in Ulungur Lake and Ulungur River in Xinjiang, China.[1]

Siberian dace
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Leuciscus
Species:
L. baicalensis
Binomial name
Leuciscus baicalensis
(Dybowski, 1874)[1]
Synonyms
  • Squalidus baicalensis Dybowski, 1874
  • Squalius suworzewi Warpachowski, 1889

The complete mitochondrial genome of Leuciscus baicalensis has a mostly conserved structural organization and it is 16,606 bp in size. It consisted of 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes and 2 ribosomal RNA genes), and 2 main non-coding regions (the control region and the origin of the light strand replication).[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Leuciscus baicalensis" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. Hu, Sifan; Niu, Jiangong; Xie, Peng; Liu, Chengjie; Karjan, Adahbek; Wang, Feng; Ma, Xufa (2014-01-27). "The complete mitochondrial genome ofLeuciscus leuciscus baicalensis(Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)". Mitochondrial DNA. 26 (5): 751–752. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.848353. ISSN 1940-1736. PMID 24460156.


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