The complete mitochondrial genome of Eumeta variegata (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

Kazuharu Arakawa; Nobuaki Kono; Rintaro Ohtoshi; Hiroyuki Nakamura; Masaru Tomita

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1495119

The complete mitochondrial genome of Eumeta variegata (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Aug 1;3(2):812-813. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1495119.

Authors

Kazuharu Arakawa^{1

2}, Nobuaki Kono¹, Rintaro Ohtoshi³, Hiroyuki Nakamura³, Masaru Tomita^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Japan.
² Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan.
³ Spiber Inc., Tsuruoka, Japan.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Eumeta variegate, largest bagworm moth in Japan, has been sequenced using a nanopore sequencer as a single long read. The genome has a total length of 16,601 bp, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 20 tRNA, 2 rRNA genes, and an AT-rich control region. The nucleotide composition was extremely AT-rich, with 42.4% A, 40.4% T, 6.67% G, and 10.6% C. This is the second report of a complete mitochondrial genome of Psychidae, and the sequence information together with a phylogenetic analysis would provide a reference data in the future studies of Lepidoptera and Psychidae.

Keywords: Eumeta japonica; Eumeta variegata; Mitochondrial genome; bagworm moth; nanopore sequencing.