Table 1.
Octocorals for Which Complete Mitochondrial Genomes Have Been Sequenced or for Which mt Gene Order Has Been Reported
| Family | Genus and Species | Gene Order | Total Length (bp) | Total IGR (bp) | GenBank Acc. No. | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcyoniidae | Lobophytum pauciflorum | A | NR | NR | NA | Chen C-T, unpublished MSc thesis |
| Alcyoniidae | Sarcophyton glaucum | A | 18,453 | 438 | AF063191, AF064823 | Pont-Kingdon et al. (1995) and Beaton et al. (1998) |
| Alcyoniidae | Sarcophyton sp. | A | NR | NR | NA | Chen C-T, unpublished MSc thesis |
| Alcyoniidae | Sinularia flexibilis | A | NR | NR | NA | Chen C-T, unpublished MSc thesis |
| Alcyoniidae | S. leptoclados | A | NR | NR | NA | Chen C-T, unpublished MSc thesis |
| Briareidae | Briareum asbestinum | A | 18,632 | 727 | DQ640649 | Medina et al. (2006) |
| Ellisellidae | Junceella fragilis | A | NR | NR | NA | Wu J-H, unpublished PhD dissertation |
| Gorgoniidae | Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata | A | 18,733 | 671 | DQ640646 | Medina et al. (2006) |
| Nephtheidae | Dendronephthya gigantea | A | 18,842 | 804 | FJ372991 | Park et al. (2010) |
| Nephtheidae | D. mollis | A | 18,844 | 806 | HQ694725 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Nephtheidae | D. putteri | A | 18,853 | 817 | HQ694726 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Nephtheidae | D. suensoni | A | 18,885 | 802 | GU047878 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Nephtheidae | D. castanea | A | 18,907 | 804 | GU047877 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Nephtheidae | Nephthea erecta | A | NR | NR | NA | Chen C-T, unpublished MSc thesis |
| Nephtheidae | Scleronephthya gracillimum | A | 18,950 | 908 | GU047879 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Plexauridae | Calicogorgia granulosa | A | 20,246 | 2,249a | GU047880 | Park et al. (2011) |
| Plexauridae | Echinogorgia complexa | A | 19,445 | 1,411 | HQ694727 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Plexauridae | Euplexaura crassa | A | 18,674 | 642 | HQ694728 | Park et al. (2012) |
| Renillidae | Renilla koellikeri | A | 18,911 | 781 | NA | Beagley et al. (1995) |
| Isididae | Acanella eburnea | B | 18,616 | 587 | EF672731 | Van der Hamm et al. (2009) |
| Isididae | Keratoisidinae BAL208-1 | B | 18,923 | 927 | EF622534 | Brugler and France (2008) |
| Coralliidae | Paracorallium japonicum | C | 18,913 | 767 | AB595189 | Uda et al. (2011) |
| Coralliidae | Corallium konojoi | D | 18,969 | 870 | AB595190 | Uda et al. (2011) |
| Paragorgiidae | Paragorgia cf. coralloides | D | 19,016 | NR | NA | Thoma J, Brugler MR, France SC, personal communication |
| Alcyoniidae | Paraminabea aldersladei | E | 19,886 | 1,874 | JX508792 | This study |
Note.—NA, no accession; NR, not reported; Total IGR, sum of non-coding intergenic regions.
aIncludes duplicated ORFs of 672 bp each.