Chimaera opalescens Raw sequence reads

Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimaeras) are a fascinating and highly vulnerable group of early branching gnathostomes. However, they remain comparatively poorly sampled from the point of view of molecular resources, with deep water taxa being particularly data deficient. The development of long-read sequencing technologies enables the analysis of phylogenetic relationships through a precise and reliable assembly of complete mtDNA genomes. The sequencing and characterization of the complete mitogenome of the opal chimaera Chimaera opalescens using the long-read technique PacBio HiFi is presented. The entire mitogenome has 23,411 bp long and shows the same overall content, i.e. 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA and two ribosomal RNA genes, as all other examined Chondrichthyan mitogenomes.