The complete mitochondrial genome of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda Smith, 1797 (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae), firstly collected in Korea

Bo Yoon Seo; Gwan-Seok Lee; Jonghyun Park; Hong Xi; Hyobin Lee; Jieun Lee; Jongsun Park; Wonhoon Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1688119

The complete mitochondrial genome of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda Smith, 1797 (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae), firstly collected in Korea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Nov 8;4(2):3918-3920. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1688119.

Authors

Bo Yoon Seo¹, Gwan-Seok Lee¹, Jonghyun Park^{2

3}, Hong Xi^{2

3}, Hyobin Lee⁴, Jieun Lee⁴, Jongsun Park^{2

3}, Wonhoon Lee^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Crop Protection Division, Department of Agro-food Safety and Crop Protection, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Wanju, Republic of Korea.
² InfoBoss Co., Ltd, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ InfoBoss Research Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Plant Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, The Republic of Korea.
⁵ Institute of Agriculture & Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, The Republic of Korea.

Abstract

The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a serious pest in large numbers on more than 350 plant species in the world. We have determined a 15,388 bp mitogenome of S. frugiperda which includes 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNAs. The base composition was AT-biased (81.3%). Phylogenetic trees present that Korean S. frugiperda placed in basal position of S. frugiperda clade. S. frugiperda mitochondrial genome can be used for understanding recent active migration of S. frugiperda.

Keywords: Korea; Spodoptera frugiperda; mitochondrial genome; noctuoidae; spodoptera.