The complete mitochondrial genome of major malaria vector Anopheles anthropophagus (Diptera: Culicidae) in China

Wei-Ping Liu; Pei-Yi Zhang; Sui Xu; Jian-Xia Tang; Hua-Yun Zhou; Ju-Lin Li; Dao-Jin Wang; Yuan-Yuan Liu; Qiang Fang; Hui Xia; Guo-Ding Zhu; Zhi-Yong Tao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1997117

The complete mitochondrial genome of major malaria vector Anopheles anthropophagus (Diptera: Culicidae) in China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Mar 15;7(3):482-484. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1997117. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wei-Ping Liu^{1

2}, Pei-Yi Zhang¹, Sui Xu³, Jian-Xia Tang³, Hua-Yun Zhou³, Ju-Lin Li³, Dao-Jin Wang¹, Yuan-Yuan Liu¹, Qiang Fang¹, Hui Xia¹, Guo-Ding Zhu³, Zhi-Yong Tao¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chaohu Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Chaohu, China.
³ National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, China.

Abstract

Anopheles anthropophagus (Xu and Feng 1975) is the major vector of malaria in Eastern and Southern China. The species An. anthropophagus is considered a synonym of An. lesteri (Baisas & Hu, 1936), although they differ in several key biological characteristics. Here, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of An. anthropophagus for the first time. The mitogenome of An. anthropophagus is a typical circular, double-stranded molecule with a total length of 15,413 base pairs, and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and an AT-rich control region. A phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitogenomes of 16 species of Anopheles (Culicidae) revealed that An. anthropophagus is closely related to An. sinensis (Wiedemann 1828), in the family Culicidae. The An. anthropophagus mitogenome provides new data for further taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of the genus Anopheles.

Keywords: Anopheles anthropophagus; Anopheles lesteri; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the Scientific Research Innovation Team Project (2016-40) and College Student’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (S202010367023) of Anhui Colleges and Universities.