The complete mitochondrial genome of the Picasso clownfish: genomic comparisons and phylogenetic inference among Amphiprioninae.

Picasso clownfish belong to the subfamily Amphiprioninae and are considered a variant of the genus . In this study, we first sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the Picasso clownfish by Illumina next-generation sequencing technology. The length of the whole mitogenome is 16,727 bp long, with a gene arrangement and composition similar to those of two other species ( and ). The topological structure of the phylogenetic tree shows that the Picasso clownfish is more closelyrelated to than it is to , suggesting that the Picasso clownfish may be a variant of .