Complete mitochondrial genomes of two snail mite: Riccardoella tokyoensis and R. reaumuri (Acariformes, Prostigmata, Ereynetidae)

Shimpei F Hiruta; Tsukasa Waki; Satoshi Shimano

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1915718

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two snail mite: Riccardoella tokyoensis and R. reaumuri (Acariformes, Prostigmata, Ereynetidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Feb 7;7(2):345-347. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1915718. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Shimpei F Hiruta¹, Tsukasa Waki², Satoshi Shimano³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan.
² Faculty of Science, Toho University, Chiba, Japan.
³ Science Research Center, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

We determined the mitochondrial genome sequences of two snail mites, Riccardoella tokyoensis and R. reaumuri. The length of the entire mitogenome of these two species is 15,078 bp and 15,148 bp long, respectively. Both of them contain 13 proteins, two rRNAs, and 22 tRNAs for a total of 37 gene products. The gene order of Riccardoella is able to explain by a single rearrangement event from that of other Eupodina species; the whole region, including both rRNA genes and control region (CR), is inverted at the same position. The CR including a tandem repeat region in both of the mitogenomes of Riccardoella species.

Keywords: Ereynetidae; Prostigmata; Riccardoella; complete mitogenome; snail mite.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by research funds of the Asahi Glass Foundation, as well as by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 18K06392 to S. S. This work was also supported by ‘LNest Grant Natural History Award’ and ‘Fujiwara Natural History Foundation’ for T. W.