Complete mitochondrial genome of Ricania shantungensis Chou & Lu, 1977 (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae)

Hyobin Lee; Keon Hee Lee; Jeong Sun Park; Gwan-Seok Lee; Iksoo Kim; Wonhoon Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1955763

Complete mitochondrial genome of Ricania shantungensis Chou & Lu, 1977 (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Oct 20;6(11):3240-3241. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1955763. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Hyobin Lee¹, Keon Hee Lee², Jeong Sun Park², Gwan-Seok Lee³, Iksoo Kim², Wonhoon Lee^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Agro-food Safety and Crop Protection, Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Wanju, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Ricania shantungensis Chou & Lu, 1977 (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae), is an invasive pest that attacks forest as well as agricultural trees. We sequenced the 15,358 bp long complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of this species; it consists of a typical set of genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 22 tRNA genes) and one major non-coding AT-rich region. The orientation and gene order of the R. shantungensis mitogenome are identical to that of the ancestral type found in majority of the insects. Bayesian inference (BI) phylogeny placed the R. shantungensis examined in our study, together with Ricania spp. in a group with the highest nodal support, forming the family Ricaniidae to which R. shantungensis belongs.

Keywords: Korea; Ricania shantungensis; Ricaniidae; mitochondrial genome.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the ‘Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development [Project No. PJ013389012020]’, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.