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Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome of Peirates arcuatus (Stål) is a typical double-stranded circular molecule 16,176 bp long with 37 genes usually present in animal mitochondrial genomes and a control region. Gene order is identical to that of the putative ancestral arrangement of insects and other assassin bugs. Thirteen protein-coding genes initiate with ATN codons and mostly terminate with TAN codons except for COII and COIII use a single T residue as the termination codon. All tRNA sequences can be folded into classic clover-leaf secondary structure except that the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm of tRNASer(AGN) forms a simple loop, and their length range from 63 to 69 bp. The control region is 1552 bp long and includes two complete 118-bp tandem repeats and one partial copy of anterior repeat unit.
Declaration of interest
Funding for this study was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB127600), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31372229) and the Special Fund for Scientific Research (No. 2012FY111100) for WZC; and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2013M540167) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2014BH021) for HL. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.