The mitochondrial genome of Calohilara tibetensis Ding, He, Lin, and Yang, 2020 (Diptera: Empididae)

Chen Lin; Shang Gao; Ding Yang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1962212

The mitochondrial genome of Calohilara tibetensis Ding, He, Lin, and Yang, 2020 (Diptera: Empididae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Aug 11;6(9):2613-2614. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1962212. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Chen Lin^{1

2}, Shang Gao², Ding Yang²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, PR China.
² College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China.

Abstract

The dance fly Calohilara tibetensis Ding, He, Lin and Yang, 2020 belongs to the subfamily Empidinae of Empididae. The mitochondrial genome of C. tibetensis was sequenced as the new representative of the subfamily Empidinae. The nearly complete mitogenome was 15,354 bp, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, and 22 tRNAs. All genes have the similar locations and strands with that of other published species of Empididae. The nucleotide composition biases toward A and T is 77.4% of the entirety. All PCGs start with ATN codons except COI and NAD1, and end with TAA or incomplete stop codon. Bayesian inference (BI) analysis strongly supported the monophyly of both Empididae and Dolichopodidae and the monophyly of subfamily Empidinae. It suggested that Calohilara is the sister group of Hilara.

Keywords: Calohilara tibetensis; Empididae; Mitochondrial genome; phylogenetics.

Grants and funding

The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31970444, 31772497, and 31860156] and Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia [No. 2018MS03038].