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Mitochondrial DNA Part A
DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis
Volume 27, 2016 - Issue 5
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Mitogenome Announcement

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Scarlet Tiger moth Callimorpha dominula (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)

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Pages 3749-3750 | Received 27 Jul 2015, Accepted 02 Aug 2015, Published online: 02 Sep 2015
 

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Scarlet Tiger moth Callimorpha dominula (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) has been reconstructed from the whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. This circular genome is 15 496 bp in size, and contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and one A + T-rich D-loop or control region. Most PCGs are initiated with the ATN codons, except for COX1 with the unusual CGA as its initiation codon. Four PCGs (COX1, COX2, ND3, and ND4) are terminated with incomplete codon T, ND4L uses TAG as its termination codon, while all the other eight PCGs employ the usual ATN codons. The nucleotide composition is highly asymmetric (40.1% A, 40.9% T, 7.6% G, and 11.4% C) with an overall A + T content of 81.0%. The phylogenetic analysis based on the neighbor-joining (NJ) method suggests that C. dominula is more phylogenetically related to its confamilial counterparts than to those from other families.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. L. Ferguson and his colleagues for generating the whole-genome sequencing data used in this study.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest, and are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. This study was financially supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2013JQ3007) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China (GK201302020 and GK201402030).

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