Mitochondrial genome of a medicinal beetle Blaps rhynchopetera (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Min Zhao; Zhao He; Cheng-Ye Wang; Long Sun; Ying Feng

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1640650

Mitochondrial genome of a medicinal beetle Blaps rhynchopetera (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 16;4(2):2583-2584. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1640650.

Authors

Min Zhao¹, Zhao He¹, Cheng-Ye Wang¹, Long Sun¹, Ying Feng¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Cultivating and Utilization of Resource Insects of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming, P.R. China.

Abstract

Blaps rhynchopetera is a species of folk medicinal beetle that has been used for a long time in Southwest China. The complete mitogenome of the beetle (GenBank accession number MK854717) is 16,149 bp in size, including 13 protein-coding, 22 transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs genes, and a noncoding D-loop region. The D-loop of 1255 bp length is located between rRNA-S and tRNA^Ile. The overall base composition of B. rhynchopetera is 41.58% for A, 10.31% for G, 31.77% for T, and 16.34% for C, with a high AT bias of 73.35%. The present data could contribute to detailed phylogeographic analysis of this valuable medicinal insect.

Keywords: Blaps rhynchopetera; Mitogenome; medicinal beetle; phylogeny.