Complete mitochondrial genome of Gynaikothrips ficorum (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Lihong Dang; Xia Wang; Danle Xie; Yuxin Gao; Linpeng Zhao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1923412

Complete mitochondrial genome of Gynaikothrips ficorum (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jun 21;6(7):2033-2034. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1923412.

Authors

Lihong Dang¹, Xia Wang¹, Danle Xie¹, Yuxin Gao¹, Linpeng Zhao²

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Science & Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, China.
² Shaanxi Changqing National Nature Reserve, Hanzhong, China.

Abstract

Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal 1908) is a major pest of bonsai ficus and poses a considerable economic threat to gardening industry. The mitochondrial genome of G. ficorum was sequenced and annotated in this study. Its whole mitogenome was 15,313 bp in length, including 37 typical genes in animal mitogenomes. ATN was used as start codon in most of the PCGs except for nad4l, which used TTG. All PCGs used TAA as termination codon except atp8 and atp6 which were ended with an incomplete T and TAG, respectively. A phylogenetic tree based on complete mitochondrial genomes of 17 species (15 Thysanoptera species and two outgroups) showed that the monophyly of Phlaeothripidae was supported and G. ficorum and G. uzeli formed a sister group.

Keywords: Thysanoptera; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [No. 31702042, 31900345], a Young Talent Fund of University Association for Science and Technology in Shaanxi, China [20180209], and the Foundation of Shaanxi University of Technology [SLGKY2001].