Complete mitochondrial genome of Niphades castanea (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Yue Fu; Jiaojun Yu; Xiangliang Fang; Mi Shen; Jun Fu; Yunli Xiao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1772683

Complete mitochondrial genome of Niphades castanea (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 11;5(3):2403-2405. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1772683.

Authors

Yue Fu^{1

2}, Jiaojun Yu^{1

2}, Xiangliang Fang^{1

2}, Mi Shen^{1

2}, Jun Fu^{1

2}, Yunli Xiao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Biology and Agricultural Resources, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China.
² Hubei Zhongke Research Institute of Industrial Technology, Huanggang, China.

Abstract

Niphades castanea Chao is an important insect pest on many plants which belong to genus Castanea. The complete mitochondrial genome of N. castanea was sequenced and analyzed. The phylogenetic relationships between N. castanea and other 41 species in the family Curculionidae were reconstructed using maximum likelihood (ML) methods based on the concatenated nucleotide sequences, the phylogenetic analysis showed that N. castanea is closely related to Hylobitelus xiaoi, which is in accordance with the traditional morphological classification.

Keywords: Curculionidae; Niphades castanea; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [Grant No. 31702048] and the Scientific Research Starting Foundation for Doctor, Huanggang Normal University (Grant No. 2020010).