The mitochondrial genome of the winter stonefly Apteroperla tikumana (Plecoptera, Capniidae)

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of Apteroperla tikumana was assembled from transcriptome using SOAPdenovo-Trans. A nearly complete mitogenome, 15 564 bp in length, was obtained, including 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNA genes. The base composition is A (34.21%), T (32.29%), C (19.86%), and G (13.64%). A phylogram was reconstructed using the mitogenomes of A. tikumana and its relatives using the distance method (neighbor joining, NJ). This mitogenome will assist a variety of biodiversity researches, especially in taxonomy and phylogeny of stoneflies.

• De novo assembly
• mitogenome
• protein-coding gene
• RNA

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank members of the 1KITE project, BGI and China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, for their effort in sampling, infrastructure support, data operation, and thoughtful comments.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflict of interest and are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. This work was supported by the National Key Technology Support Program (No.2012BAK11B06-4).