Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Omosita colon (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

Wang Xu; Yu Wang; Man Wang; Yinghui Wang; Yanan Zhang; Jiangfeng Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1915201

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Omosita colon (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Apr 26;6(4):1547-1553. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1915201.

Authors

Wang Xu¹, Yu Wang¹, Man Wang¹, Yinghui Wang¹, Yanan Zhang¹, Jiangfeng Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China.

Abstract

Omosita colon (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is an economically important storage pest worldwide and a forensically important beetle. The first complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of O. colon was sequenced in this study using the next-generation sequencing. The mitogenome of O. colon is circular with a total length of 16,544 bp, which consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and a non-coding control region. The order and orientation of genes were identical with that of the ancestral insects. This study provides genomic data for mitogenome library of the genus Omosita to investigate evolutionary and systematic studies. It also provides a molecular basis to infer the postmortem interval (PMI_min) with O. colon.

Keywords: Mitogenome; Nitidulidae; evolution; necrophagous beetle; storage pest.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 31872258 and 32070508]; and Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.