Complete mitochondrial genome of Brochis multiradiatus

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Yet another one via the "Red Star Ornamental Fish Market."

"Baohong Xu, Hang Su, Qiaolin Liu, Ligang Lv, Kaijian Chen & Tiaoyi Xiao (2020) Complete mitochondrial genome of

Brochis multiradiatus

, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5:1, 646-647, DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1711227"

<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... 19.1711227>

Brochis multiradiatus belongs to Teleostei, Siluriformes, Callichthyidae, subfamily Corydoradinae. Brochis multiradiatus is common in Chinese ornamental fish market. Because there are two small ‘whiskers’ beside its mouth, which looks like a small mouse swimming in the water, it is called mousefish. Mousefish is a category fish just named from appearance, such as Corydoras nattereri voucher (Moreira et al. 2016), Corydoras panda (Liu, Liu, Xiao, et al. 2019), Corydoras duplicareus (Liu, Xu, Xiao 2019), Corydoras arcuatus (Liu, Xu, Xiao, Liu 2019), and Corydoras sterbai (Liu, Liu, Xu, et al. 2019), they are all named mousefish. In order to distinguish and identify B. multiradiatus in genome, we determined the mitochondrial genome sequence of the B. multiradiatus and carried out mitochondrial genome structure and phylogenetic analysis..........The live sample of B. multiradiatus was collected from the Red Star Ornamental Fish Market in Changsha, Hunan Province, China (113.03E, 28.09 N).

cheers Darrel

[bekateen]

Hi Darrel,

Although I reported the C. agassizii paper recently, there are several of these papers to have come out recently which I've ignored to report for just the reasons you mention here and elsewhere.

I should publish like this, just to pad my resume. If my administration will fall for it, maybe I'll make full professor before I die.

Cheers, Eric

[racoll]

I don't mind them publishing papers that nobody will read, but when put this crappy data on public databases, it really bothers me.

This one, apparently "Tatia intermedia", is actually a goldfish!

See https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cg ... RY_TO=7036

[bekateen]

I don't mind them publishing papers that nobody will read, but when put this crappy data on public databases, it really bothers me.

This one, apparently "Tatia intermedia", is actually a goldfish!

See https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cg ... RY_TO=7036

Holy cow, that's horrible work. Is there a "fake news" checker on NCBI?

Cheers, Eric

[racoll]

No, but there really should be ... In its place I have a "spreadsheet of shame" that I use to filter out any undesirable sequences before I use them. Problem is it needs manually updating and that takes work

Some of my favourites are:

Solea solea identified as Xiphias gladius
Thunnus identifed as Engraulis encrasicolus
Ammodytes identified as Conger conger
Ictaluridae identified as Pleuronectes platessa
Cetorhinus maximus identified as Carcharodon carcharias

Of course these are probably just lab mixups and a lack of quality control, but I like to think I wouldn't go swimming with someone who confused a great white shark and a basking shark!