Complete mitochondrial genome of the Mexican marine littoral hygrophilous Spinactaletes boneti (Collembola: Actaletidae) and its phylogenetic placement

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro; José G Palacios-Vargas; Yan Gao; Yun Bu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2068982

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Mexican marine littoral hygrophilous Spinactaletes boneti (Collembola: Actaletidae) and its phylogenetic placement

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 May 3;7(5):755-757. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2068982. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro¹, José G Palacios-Vargas², Yan Gao¹, Yun Bu¹

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai, China.
² Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.

Abstract

Spinactaletes boneti mitochondrial genome was assembled and annotated. It has 14,766 bp in length, all 37 genes are present and the gene order is the same as the Pancrustacean ancestral gene order. Phylogenetic analyses based on maximum likelihood placed the species as a sister group of the remaining Entomobryomorpha, not closely related to the Isotomoidea superfamily, contradicting the actual systematics of the group.

Keywords: Actaletidae; Mexico; Mitogenome; intertidal zone.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [no: 32170471], the Research Foundation of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and Postdoctoral fund of Haibo Program of Pudong New Area in 2021.