The complete mitochondrial genome of Melanotus cribricollis (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and phylogenetic analysis

Yang Wang; Yang Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1669085

The complete mitochondrial genome of Melanotus cribricollis (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 24;4(2):3238-3239. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1669085.

Authors

Yang Wang¹, Yang Liu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Biology Pharmacy and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo, Shaanxi Province, China.
² Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education) and College of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

Abstract

We determined the complete mitogenome sequence of Melanotus cribricollis (Faldermann) (GenBank accession no. MK792748). The mitogenome is 15,908 bp in length, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and one non-coding control region. The overall nucleotide composition was 40.8% A, 31.5% T, 17.4% C, and 10.3% G, with 72.3% of AT, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 13 coding protein genes nucleotide sequences revealed that M. cribricollis clustered with the same genus species M. villosus, and the three genus Melanotus Eschscholtz, Agriotes Eschscholtz and Adrastus Eschscholtz had a close relationship.

Keywords: Insecta; genetic diversity; mitochondrial DNA.; molecular phylogeny.