The mitochondrial genome of Erannis ankeraria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Yimeng Chen; Qinghua Wang; Shaobo Wang; Liangjian Qu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1644560

The mitochondrial genome of Erannis ankeraria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 22;4(2):2696-2697. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1644560.

Authors

Yimeng Chen^{1

2}, Qinghua Wang², Shaobo Wang^{2

3}, Liangjian Qu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Plant Protection, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
² Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
³ Academy of Forestry, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China.

Abstract

The measuring worm Erannis ankeraria belongs to the subfamily Ennominae of Geometridae. The mitogenome (GenBank accession number: MN046105) of E. ankeraria was sequenced, the new representative of the mitogenome of the subfamily. The nearly complete mitogenome is 15,250 bp totally, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, and 22 transfer RNAs. All genes have the similar locations and strands with that of other published species of Geometridae. The nucleotide composition biases towards A and T, which together made up 79.3% of the entirety. Bayesian inference analysis strongly supported the monophyly of Bombycoidea, Geometroidea, Noctuoidea, Papilionoidea, Pyraloidea, and Tortricoidea were strongly supported. This result also suggested that the Geometroidea was the sister to Bombycoidea, and then Noctuoidea was assigned to the sister group to the clade of Geometroidea + Bombycoidea, and then Pyraloidea was the sister group to the clade that contains Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, and Noctuoidea, and then Papilionoidea was the sister group to the clade that contains these four superfamilies mentioned above.

Keywords: Ennominae; Mitochondrial genome; phylogenetics.