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Abstract
The nearly complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the butterfly, Polyura schreiber, was determined. The sequenced mitogenome is a typical circular DNA molecule of 15 320 bp, containing 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 21 tRNA genes, and a putative control region. tRNAPhe was failed to sequence, which was presumed to be located between tRNAGlu and ND5. Protein-coding genes all initiate with ATN codons and terminate with TAA codons except for COII and ND5 use a single T residue as the termination codon. All tRNAs have the clover-leaf structure except for the tRNASer(AGN) and the length of them range from 65 to 71 bp. The control region is 412 bp long with an A + T content of 90.5%. Our phylogenetic analysis recovered the sister-group relationship between Charaxinae and Satyrinae.
Declaration of interest
Funding for this study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40871034), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China (Nos. 2011011033-2 and 2012011033-3), Construction Project for Basic Condition platform of science and technology of Shanxi Province, China (No. 2013091004-0104). All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. The authors report that they have no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.