Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Morchella eohespera

Wei Sa; Qian-Han Shang; Ting Yang; Qi-Yuan Gao; Mi-Li Liu; Jian Liang; Zhong-Hu Li

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1797559

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Morchella eohespera

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jul 29;5(3):3048-3049. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1797559.

Authors

Wei Sa¹, Qian-Han Shang¹, Ting Yang², Qi-Yuan Gao², Mi-Li Liu², Jian Liang¹, Zhong-Hu Li²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, College of Ecological and Environmental Engineering, Qinghai University, Xining, PR China.
² Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, PR China.

Abstract

Morchella eohespera Beug, Voitk & O'Donnell is a typical black morel species. In this study, using the Nanopore sequencing platform, we characterized its whole mitochondrial (mt) genome sequence. Mt genome of M. eohespera is composed of circular DNA molecules of 243,963 bp, which encoded 102 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNA), and 31 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. The base composition of M. eohespera mitogenome is as follows: A (30.40%), T (29.30%), G (20.8%), and C (19.5%). The phylogenetic analysis suggested that M. eohespera was closely related to the congeneric M. importuna.

Keywords: Morchella eohespera; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work was co-supported by the Youth program of Natural Science Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Qinghai Province (2018-ZJ-963Q), the Key R & D and transformation projects of science and Technology Department of Qinghai Province (2017-NK-151), the Fourth National Survey of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources (Grants no. 2017-66, 2018-43 and 2019-39) and the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education) (Grants no. ZSK2017007 and ZSK2019008).