The complete mitochondrial genome of Mantis religiosa (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Canada and its phylogeny

Yi-Yang Jia; Le-Ping Zhang; Xiao-Dong Xu; Xin-Yi Dai; Dan-Na Yu; Kenneth B Storey; Jia-Yong Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1681912

The complete mitochondrial genome of Mantis religiosa (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Canada and its phylogeny

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Oct 25;4(2):3797-3799. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1681912.

Authors

Yi-Yang Jia¹, Le-Ping Zhang¹, Xiao-Dong Xu¹, Xin-Yi Dai¹, Dan-Na Yu^{1

2}, Kenneth B Storey³, Jia-Yong Zhang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.
² Key Lab of Wildlife Biotechnology, Conservation and Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.
³ Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Mantis religiosa (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Canada was successfully sequenced. The mitochondrial genome was a circular molecule of 15,521 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 23 tRNA genes (including an extra tRNA^Arg gene), and the control region. The AT content of the whole genome was 76.9% and the length of the control region was 636 bp with 81.9% AT content. The structure of the M. religiosa mitochondrial genome from Canada was almost identical to M. religiosa from China and their genetic distance was just 0.017. In Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum likelihood (ML) analyses, we found that M. religiosa was a sister clade to Statilia sp. and the monophyly of the genera Hierodula and Rhombodera was not supported.

Keywords: Mantidae; Mantis religiosa; mitogenome; phylogeny.