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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">ARPHA Preprints</journal-title>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e156693</article-id>
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          <subject>Data Paper</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="biological_taxon">
          <subject>Animalia</subject>
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          <subject>Biodiversity &amp; Conservation</subject>
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          <subject>Cenozoic</subject>
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          <subject>Asia</subject>
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        <article-title>The complete mitochondrial genomes of <italic>Acheilognathus mengyangensis</italic> (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae, Acheilognathinae): characterization and phylogenetic analysis</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>LI</surname>
            <given-names>Zhengran</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhou</surname>
            <given-names>Chuanjiang</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">chuanjiang88@163.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6433-737X</uri>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Jinhui</surname>
            <given-names>Yu</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Henan Normal University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Xinxiang</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Henan Normal University, Xinxiang City, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Henan Normal University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Xinxiang City</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Chuanjiang Zhou (<email xlink:type="simple">chuanjiang88@163.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>6</volume>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/F383FBBB-8CCE-5D67-893B-4ECEA399E66F">F383FBBB-8CCE-5D67-893B-4ECEA399E66F</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Zhengran LI, Chuanjiang Zhou, Yu Jinhui</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>In this paper, we analyzed the mitochondrial genome data of <italic>Acheilognathus mengyangensis </italic>and used the multi-gene tandem method to elucidate its taxonomic status. The total length of the mitochondrial genome is 16,779 bp, including 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and D-loop region. Overall, there was strong AT bias and anti-G bias; Different protein-coding genes exhibit different degrees of codon preference. The rest of the amino acids except tRNA<sup>Ser (GCT)</sup> of the 22 tRNAs were in one form, and the secondary structure was incomplete, and all the other tRNAs folded to show the secondary structure of a typical clover. 13 protein-coding genes of <italic>Acheilognathus</italic> and <italic>Rhodeus</italic> were concatenated to explore the phylogenetic relationship with <italic>Pseudorasbora parva</italic> as the outgroup. The results showed that <italic>A. mengyangensis, A. chankaensis, A. macropterus</italic> is the most closely related. This research supplements Acheilognathus mitochondrial genome data, serving as a molecular basis for safeguarding species, facilitating genetic classification, and investigating Acheilognathinae phylogeny.</p>
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