The complete mitochondrial genome of the wild silkmoth Antheraea yamamai from Heilongjiang, China (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Shu-Wei Sun; Jing-Chao Huang; Yan-Qun Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1945975

The complete mitochondrial genome of the wild silkmoth Antheraea yamamai from Heilongjiang, China (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 14;6(8):2209-2211. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1945975. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Shu-Wei Sun¹, Jing-Chao Huang², Yan-Qun Liu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Agronomy, Eastern Liaoning University, Dandong, China.
² College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China.

Abstract

Here, we reported the complete mitochondrial genome of Antheraea yamamai Guérin-Méneville (1861) collected in Heilongjiang Province, China. The mitochondrial genome is 15,341 bp and encodes 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNA genes. Sequence comparison identified 22 SNVs in the A. yamamai mitochondrial genomes between Chinese and Korean populations, indicating a low intraspecific variation between the two populations . Phylogenetic analyses with maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference methods revealed a close relationship between A. yamamai and Antheraea frithi and supported the relationship among Antheraea species (((A. yamamai + A. frithi) + A. pernyi) + A. assamensis).

Keywords: Antheraea yamamai; intraspecific variation; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31972617] and China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA [CARS-18].