Complete mitochondrial genome of the geophilous grasshopper Trilophidia annulata (Acrididae: Oedipodinae: Trilophidia)

Abstract

The complete mitogenome of the geophilous grasshopper Trilophidia annulata was reconstructed from whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. After annotation, the circular genome was obtained with 16,501 bp in length, and typically consisted of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), 2 ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and 1 D-loop region. All PCGs were initiated with ATN codons, except ND2 with the start codon GTG. Most of the PCGs used TAA as their stop codons, while the others used TAG as stop codons (COX1, COX3&ND1). The nucleotide composition was asymmetric (42.3% A, 15.0% C, 11.0% G, 31.8% T) with an overall GC content of 25.9%. These data would contribute to the design of novel molecular markers for population and evolutionary research of T. annulata.

• Data mining
• geneious
• illumina sequencing
• MITObim
• mitochondrial genome
• Trilophidia annulata

Declaration of interest

We declare that there are no conflicts of interest, and the author is responsible for the content and writing of the article. The annotated mitogenome sequence of T. annulata had been deposited into GenBank under the accession number: KP233803. The authors were financially supported by the funding of the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China, (Grant No. 2014JC11868) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31372250).