Complete mitochondrial genome of Emphasis Type="I

Authors: XinMin Qin XiaoWen Yang LiXia Hou HuiMin Li

Publish Date: 2017/01/13

Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-81

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Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Ampittia dioscorides Lepidoptera Hesperiidae was determined The sequenced genome is a circular molecule of 15313 bp containing 13 proteincoding genes PCGs 22 tRNA genes two rRNA genes and an A + Trich region The gene arrangements and transcribing directions are identical to those in most of the reported lepidopteran mitogenomes The base composition of the whole genome and genes or regions are also similar to those in other lepidopteran species All the PCGs are initiated by typical ATN codons the exception being COI which begins with a CGA codon Eight genes ND2 ATPase8 ATPase6 COIII ND5 ND4L ND6 and Cytb end with a TAA stop codon and two genes ND1 and ND3 end with TAG The remaining three genes COI and COII which end with TA and ND4 which ends with T have incomplete stop codons All tRNAs have the typical cloverleaf structure of mitochondrial tRNAs with the exception of tRNASerAGY On the basis of the concatenated nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the 13 PCGs and wingless gene of 22 butterfly species maximum parsimony MP and Bayesian inference BI trees were constructed respectively Both MP and BI trees had the same topological structure Nymphalidae + Danaidae + Lycaenidae + Pieridae + Papilionidae + Hesperiidae The results provide support for Hesperiidae as a superfamilylevel taxon

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