Authors: Shuaiyu Wang Zhongren Lei Haihong Wang Baoxing Dong Baozhen Ren
Publish Date: 2010/04/08
Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 687-692
Abstract
Liriomyza trifolii Diptera Agromyzidae is one of the most economically significant pests in the world In this paper we present sequence data for the complete mitochondrial genome of L trifolii The circular genome is 16141 bp long and contains one encoding region including 37 genes and one noncoding A+Trich region Gene numbers and organization is similar to that of the typical insect mitochondrial genomes except that two additional tRNA genes are found in the A+Trich region tRNAThr and tRNALeuUUR All of the protein initiation codons are ATN except ND1 which begins with GTG and COI which is initiated by the quadruplet ATCA The 22 tRNA anticodons of L trifolii match those observed in Drosophila yakuba and all of tRNAs form the typical cloverleaf structure except for tRNASerAGN which has lost the DHUarm The A+Trich region of L trifolii also contains two previously noted Diperan features—a highly conserved polyT stretch and a TAn stretchThis work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China 2009CB119000 the National 11th Fiveyears Project 2006BAD08A17 2006BAD08A08 of China and the Earmarked Fund for Modern Agroindustry Technology Research System The authors thank Dr Ronald D Oetting and Dr David C Marshall for assistance in editing this manuscript
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