A Draft Mitogenome of Plectus Murrayi

Xia Xue; Byron J Adams; Adler R Dilman

doi:10.2478/jofnem-2022-0035

A Draft Mitogenome of Plectus Murrayi

J Nematol. 2022 Sep 30;54(1):20220035. doi: 10.2478/jofnem-2022-0035. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Xia Xue^{1

2}, Byron J Adams^{2

3}, Adler R Dilman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Henan Key Laboratory of Helicobacter pylori & Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Cancer, Marshall Medical Research Center, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan, China.
² Department of Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT, USA.
³ BYU Life Science Museum, Provo, UT, USA.
⁴ Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.

Abstract

Plectus murrayi is a free-living microbivorous nematode endemic to Antarctic soils. Our draft assembly of its mitogenome was 15,656 bp long, containing 12 protein-coding, eight transfer RNA (tRNA), and two ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. Mitophylogenomic analyses extend our understanding of mitochondrial evolution in Nematoda.

Keywords: Antarctica; MitoZ; genome decay; genomics; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny.