The complete mitochondrial genome of the springtail Allacma fusca, the internal phylogenetic relationships and gene order of Symphypleona

Abstract

Symphypleona (sensu stricto) are a group of Collembola (=springtails) that, despite displaying some variation in gene order, have been poorly investigated under the phylomitogenomic perspective. How families and subfamilies of this taxon are evolutionary related is still partially unknown. For this reason we sequenced, and herein described, the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Allacma fusca (Sminthuridae). This sequence, alongside others from the literature, is here used to study the phylogenetic relationships among Symphypleona.

Keywords:

• Symphypleona
• Sminthuridae
• springtails mitogenomics
• Collembola

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy for providing computational resources and Dr. Andrea Bernini for continuous support.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI with reference number MT547779 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT547779.

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Funding

This research was funded by the University of Siena PAR (Piano di Ateneo per la Ricerca) program.