Determining the complete mitochondrial genome of Tethea albicostata (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Xinyue Liang; Ping Wang; Lei Zhang; Zaiyuan Li; Yutao Xiao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2254462

Determining the complete mitochondrial genome of Tethea albicostata (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Sep 8;8(9):963-966. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2254462. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Xinyue Liang^{1

2}, Ping Wang^{1

3

4}, Lei Zhang¹, Zaiyuan Li¹, Yutao Xiao¹

Affiliations

¹ Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
² College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
³ School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
⁴ Shenzhen Research Institute of Henan University, Shenzhen, China.

Abstract

Tethea albicostata is a widely distributed insect species in northern and central China. To date, few studies have been conducted on this species, with the exception of morphological taxonomy studies. Here, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of T. albicostata collected in China. The circular-mapping mitogenome is 15,308 bp in length, with an overall A + T content of 80.52%, encoding 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and 13 protein-coding genes. The gene arrangement and components of T. albicostata are identical to those of most other Lepidopteran insects. Phylogenetic analysis based on mitogenomes showed that T. albicostata is grouped with Drepana pallida, which belongs to the same family as Drepanidae. The family Drepanidae formed a separate branch from other families in the phylogenetic tree. This study determined the second mitochondrial genome of the Drepanidae species.

Keywords: Drepanidae; Tethea albicostata; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program under Grant number [KQT D20180411143628272] and the Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation under Grant number [JCYJ20200109150629266].