Mitochondrial DNA sequence of the horseshoe crab .

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Department of Chemical Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kelantan, Malaysia.

Published: May 2021

This paper reports on the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of a horseshoe crab, (), in Kuala Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia. Whole-genome sequencing of hemocyte DNA was performed with Illumina HiSeq system and the generated reads were assembled with ABySS 2.1.5 and reassembled using mitoZ against and , resulting in a contig of 15 Kb. Phylogenetic analysis of the assembled mt genome suggests that the is closely related to than to

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