Complete mitogenome of Antheraea formosana Sonan, 1937 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): an endemic silkmoth in Taiwan

An-Ping Cheng; Chi-Chun Huang; Yu-Tzu Cheng; Yu-Wei Tseng; Chih-Chiang Wang; I-Ling Lai; Kuo-Hsiang Hung

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2034543

Complete mitogenome of Antheraea formosana Sonan, 1937 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): an endemic silkmoth in Taiwan

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Mar 6;7(3):446-447. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2034543. eCollection 2022.

Authors

An-Ping Cheng¹, Chi-Chun Huang², Yu-Tzu Cheng³, Yu-Wei Tseng¹, Chih-Chiang Wang³, I-Ling Lai^{1

4}, Kuo-Hsiang Hung^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Graduate Institute of Bioresources, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan.
² Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, Nantou, Taiwan.
³ Department of Forestry, Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan.
⁴ Biodiversity Research Center, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan.

Abstract

The complete mitogenome of an endemic silkmoth in Taiwan, Antheraea formosana, was determined using Illumina next-generation sequencing. The mitogenome is 15,318 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, and one non-coding control region. The overall base composition of the mitogenome showed a high A + T bias, and the A + T content (80.2%) was significantly higher than the G + C content (19.8%). All PCGs use the typical ATN as the initiation codon, with the exception of cox2, which begins with GTG, respectively. The complete mitogenome was used to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree, indicating that A. formosana is more closely related to Antheraea assamensis than other Antheraea species, with 93.19% nucleotide similarity.

Keywords: Antheraea formosana; mitogenome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Grant [110-2628-B-020-004].