Complete mitochondrial genomes of Papilio nephelus chaon and Papilio epycides (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Papilioninae) and phylogenetic analysis

Zhentian Yan; Mingjuan Lu; Site Luo; Shulin He; Wenbo Fu; Xueqian Wang; Zhenhuai Fan; Danlan Hu; Bin Chen

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2091491

Complete mitochondrial genomes of Papilio nephelus chaon and Papilio epycides (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Papilioninae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Jul 4;7(7):1203-1205. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2091491. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhentian Yan¹, Mingjuan Lu¹, Site Luo², Shulin He¹, Wenbo Fu¹, Xueqian Wang¹, Zhenhuai Fan¹, Danlan Hu¹, Bin Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Chongqing Key Laboratory of Vector Insects; Institute of Entomology and Molecular Biology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China.
² School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequences of Papilio nephelus chaon and Papilio epycides were sequenced by Illumina and analyzed in this study. They are 15,287 bp and 15,012 bp in size, respectively, and contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes (tRNAs), 2 rRNA genes (rRNAs), and 1 AT-rich control region (CR). The phylogenetic relationships of 56 species in the Papilionidae were inferred based on concatenated nucleotide sequences by using Maximum Likelihood with the selected best-fit model GTR + F+R6. The phylogenetic analysis showed that P. nephelus chaon and P. epycides were located in the genus Papilio. This study provides a basis for further study on mitogenome and phylogenetics of the Papilionidae.

Keywords: Papilio epycides; Papilio nephelus chaon; Papilionidae; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Education Commission of China (No. KJQN201900532).