Next-generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of Rhodoprasina callantha (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and its evolutionary status

Yin-Feng Meng; Guo-Tao Lv; Yi-Xin Huang; Xu Wang; Yong-Ling Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2107461

Next-generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of Rhodoprasina callantha (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and its evolutionary status

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Aug 10;7(8):1468-1470. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2107461. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yin-Feng Meng¹, Guo-Tao Lv², Yi-Xin Huang³, Xu Wang⁴, Yong-Ling Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Biology Pharmacy and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo, China.
² Datong Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Datong, China.
³ Collaborative Innovation Center of Recovery and Reconstruction of Degraded Ecosystem in Wanjiang Basin Co-founded by Anhui Province and Ministry of Education, School of Ecology and Environment, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
⁴ Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.

Abstract

In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome of Rhodoprasina callantha Jordan, 1929. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of R. callantha was 15,343 bp in size and encoded 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNA), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNA) and one control region (CR). The nucleotide composition of mitogenome was highly biased to A and T. Most protein-coding genes (PCGs) initiate with the standard start codon of ATN and terminate with the typical stop codon TAA/TAG. The phylogeny of Sphingidae based on nucleotide sequences of PCGs recovered the monophyly of subfamilies of Sphingidae with high support values. Langinae was the first subfamily diverged in Sphingidae, which was in accordance with previous study. R. callantha was the member of subfamily Smerinthinae, and closely related to the genus Marumba.

Keywords: Bombycoidea; Mitogenome; Yunnan Province; hawkmoth.

Grants and funding

The project was supported by grants from the Specialized Research Fund of Education Department of Shaanxi Province [21JK0618], Project of Science and Technology Special of Shangluo [2021-Z-0048], the Scientific Research Foundation of Shangluo University [20SKY009], the Natural Science Fund of Anhui Province [1908085QC93] and Natural Science Foundation of Universities of Anhui Province [KJ2020A0094].