The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Corizus tetraspilus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) and Phylogenetic Analysis of Pentatomomorpha

PLoS One. 2015 Jun 4;10(6):e0129003. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129003. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Insect mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) are the most extensively used genetic information for molecular evolution, phylogenetics and population genetics. Pentatomomorpha (>14,000 species) is the second largest infraorder of Heteroptera and of great economic importance. To better understand the diversity and phylogeny within Pentatomomorpha, we sequenced and annotated the complete mitogenome of Corizus tetraspilus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), an important pest of alfalfa in China. We analyzed the main features of the C. tetraspilus mitogenome, and provided a comparative analysis with four other Coreoidea species. Our results reveal that gene content, gene arrangement, nucleotide composition, codon usage, rRNA structures and sequences of mitochondrial transcription termination factor are conserved in Coreoidea. Comparative analysis shows that different protein-coding genes have been subject to different evolutionary rates correlated with the G+C content. All the transfer RNA genes found in Coreoidea have the typical clover leaf secondary structure, except for trnS1 (AGN) which lacks the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm and possesses a unusual anticodon stem (9 bp vs. the normal 5 bp). The control regions (CRs) among Coreoidea are highly variable in size, of which the CR of C. tetraspilus is the smallest (440 bp), making the C. tetraspilus mitogenome the smallest (14,989 bp) within all completely sequenced Coreoidea mitogenomes. No conserved motifs are found in the CRs of Coreoidea. In addition, the A+T content (60.68%) of the CR of C. tetraspilus is much lower than that of the entire mitogenome (74.88%), and is lowest among Coreoidea. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitogenomic data support the monophyly of each superfamily within Pentatomomorpha, and recognize a phylogenetic relationship of (Aradoidea + (Pentatomoidea + (Lygaeoidea + (Pyrrhocoroidea + Coreoidea)))).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Base Composition / genetics
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Codon / genetics
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Genome, Insect*
  • Genome, Mitochondrial*
  • Hemiptera / genetics*
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Nucleotides / genetics
  • Open Reading Frames / genetics
  • Phylogeny*
  • RNA, Ribosomal / genetics
  • RNA, Transfer / chemistry
  • RNA, Transfer / genetics
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • Codon
  • Nucleotides
  • RNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, Transfer

Grants and funding

The research was funded by the Keygrant Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (313028), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13019), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2012-91). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.