Complete mitochondrial genome of the Chinese endemic grasshopper Fruhstorferiola kulinga (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Podismini)

Abstract

The whole-genome Illumina sequence of the Chinese endemic grasshopper Fruhstorferiola kulinga mitogenome was constructed and reported in this study. In all, the circular genome was obtained with 15,655 bp in length and contains 75.4% A + T. It typically consists of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), 2 ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and 1 D-loop region. All PCGs are initiated with ATN codons. Most of the PCGs use TAA as their stop codons, while the others use TAG as stop codons (COX1 and ND1). The size of the large and small ribosomal RNA genes are 1314 bp and 851 bp. The A + T-rich region (777 bp) showed strong resemblance to the other known Orthoptera insects. Our data would contribute to confirm the close relationship and other evolutionary researches of the F. kulinga.

• Fruhstorferiola kulinga
• GENEIOUS
• illumina sequencing
• MITObim
• mitochondrial DNA
• MITOS

Declaration of interest

We declare that there are no conflict of interest, and the authors are responsible for the content and writing of this article.

The annotated mitogenome sequence of Fruhstorferiola kulinga had been deposited into GenBank under the accession number: KP347043. The author was financially supported by the funding of the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant no. 2014JC11868) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31372250).