The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Phintella cavaleriei (Araneae: Salticidae)

Peng-Liang Xia; Yong Huang; Xiao-Fei Xie; Shu-Yan Yan; Yi Luo; Wen-Jia Yang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1927224

The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Phintella cavaleriei (Araneae: Salticidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 May 12;6(5):1625-1626. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1927224.

Authors

Peng-Liang Xia¹, Yong Huang¹, Xiao-Fei Xie¹, Shu-Yan Yan², Yi Luo², Wen-Jia Yang²

Affiliations

¹ Enshi Tobacco Company of Hubei Province, Enshi, China.
² Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Rare Animal and Economic Insect of the Mountainous Region, College of Biology and Environmental Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Phintella cavaleriei is 14,325 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes, and a putative control region. The overall nucleotide composition is 35.04% A, 8.46% C, 13.41% G, and 43.09% T, with a total of A + T content of 78.13%. Ten PCGs start with typical ATN codons, two genes (cox2 and cox3) begin with TTG, and cox1 use TTA as initiation codon. Ten PCGs use usual termination codon of TAA or TAG, whereas the remaining three PCGs had an incomplete termination codon (T-). Seven tRNAs (trnY, trnC, trnG, trnN, trnH, trnP, and trnV) lacked the TΨC arm stem, while two tRNAs (trnS₁ and trnS₂ ) lost the dihydrouracil (DHU) arm. Phylogenetic analysis based on 13 PCGs indicated that P. cavaleriei was closely related to Cheliceroides longipalpis, and clustered within Salticidae clade.

Keywords: Phintella cavaleriei; Salticidae; mitogenome.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Major Special Project of China Tobacco Company [110201901038[LS-01]], the Science and Technology Program of Hubei Tabacco Company [027Y2018-025], the Guizhou Provincial Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates [20195200362], and the Program for First-class Discipline Construction in Guizhou Province [201785].