Complete mitochondrial characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

Xiu-Shuang Zhu; Xu Wang; Yin-Feng Meng; Yi-Xin Huang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2253563

Complete mitochondrial characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Sep 8;8(9):952-955. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2253563. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Xiu-Shuang Zhu¹, Xu Wang², Yin-Feng Meng³, Yi-Xin Huang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Ecology and Environment, Collaborative Innovation Center of Recovery and Reconstruction of Degraded Ecosystem in Wanjiang Basin Co-founded by Anhui Province and Ministry of Education, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
² College of Life Sciences, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
³ College of Biology Pharmacy and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo, China.

Abstract

Deilephila elpenor is widely distributed in countries of Asia and Central Europe, and the larva is recognized as significant agriculture pest. The complete mitochondrial genome of D. elpenor is 15,372 bp in length. It contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and a control region. TAA is utilized as the termination codon for most PCGs, however, cox1 and cox2 use the incomplete termination codon T, and nad3 uses TAG as the termination codon. UUA (Leu) is the most frequently used codon, GCG (Ala) and CCG (Pro) are the least frequently used codons. In addition, we selected 15 species sequences closest to this species from NCBI, and used Manduca quinquemaculata and Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Smerinthinae) as the outgroup. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that D. elpenor was the most closely related to genus Theretra, genus Rhagastis and Cechenena minor.

Keywords: Deilephila elpenor; Sphingidae; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 32100352 and 32100355] and the Natural Science Fund of Anhui Province [Grant No. 1908085QC93].