The complete mitochondrial genome of the common sea slater, Ligia oceanica (Crustacea, Isopoda) bears a novel gene order and unusual control region features

Table 1 Gene content of the mitochondrial genome of Ligia oceanica.

Gene	Strand	GenBank position no.	Size (nts)	Size (aa)	Start codon	Stop codon	Intergenic nucleotides
trnQ	-	1–63	63				11
trnM	+	75–140	66				-21
nad2	+	120–1142	1023	340	ATG	TAA	-15
trnC	-	1128–1181	54				0
trnY	-	1182–1243	62				4
cox1	+	1248–2786	1539	512	ACG	TAA	-5
trnL2-UUR	+	2782–2843	62				0
cox2	+	2844–3527	684	227	ATA	TAG	0
trnK	+	3528–3590	63				-2
trnD	+	3589–3648	60				1
atp8	+	3650–3805	156	51	GTG	TAA	-7
atp6	+	3799–4470	672	223	ATG	TAA	-1
cox3	+	4470–5256	787	262	ATG	T	0
trnG	+	5257–5317	61				3
nad3	+	5321–5671	351	116	ATT	TAA	-2
trnA	+	5670–5729	60				18
nad1	-	5748–6691	944	314	ATA	TA	-3
trnL1-CUN	-	6689–6750	62				-4
trnN	+	6747–6810	64				*
rrnS	+	6811–7660	850				*
trnW	-	7661–7726	66				24
trnV	-	7751–7806	56				36
trnI	+	7843–7899	57				*
non-coding region		7900–8636	737				*
trnE	+	8637–8696	60				2
trnS1-AGY	+	8699–8760	62				17
cob	-	8778–9911	1134	377	ATA	TAA	0
trnT	-	9912–9971	60				52
nad5	+	10024–11688	1665	554	ATT	TAG	-10
trnF	+	11679–11741	63				-4
trnH	-	11738–11800	63				-1
nad4	-	11800–13134	1335	444	ATG	TAA	-7
nad4L	-	13128–13418	291	96	ATA	TAA	12
trnP	-	13431–13492	62				13
nad6	+	13506–13994	489	162	ATT	TAG	-2
trnS2-UCN	+	13993–14055	63				*
rrnL	-	14056–15289	1234				*

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