The complete mitochondrial genome of a parthenogenetic ant Monomorium triviale (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Naoto Idogawa; Chih-Chi Lee; Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang; Shigeto Dobata

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1970632

The complete mitochondrial genome of a parthenogenetic ant Monomorium triviale (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Aug 31;6(10):2793-2795. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1970632. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Naoto Idogawa¹, Chih-Chi Lee², Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang³, Shigeto Dobata⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
² Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
⁴ Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Monomorium is one of the most species-rich yet taxonomically problematic ant genus. An East Asian species, M. triviale Wheeler, W.M., 1906, is reproduced by obligate thelytokous parthenogenesis and performs strict reproductive division of labor. We sequenced the M. triviale mitogenome using next-generation sequencing methods. The circular mitogenome of M. triviale was 16,290 bp in length, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNAs, and a single non-coding region of 568 bp. The base composition was AT-biased (82%). Gene order rearrangements were detected and likely to be unique to the genus Monomorium. We announce the M. triviale mitogenome as additional genomic resources for elucidating phylogenetic and taxonomic problems of Monomorium and comparative genomics of parthenogenetic ant species.

Keywords: Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Monomorium; mitogenome; thelytoky.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists to NI [19J22242] and a Grant from the Secom Science and Technology Foundation to SD.