The genetic variations in the mitochondrial genomes of three Luciolinae fireflies

Abstract

This paper studied the complete mitochondrial genomes of three fireflies, Pygoluciola qingyu, Emeia pseudosauteri and Abscondita terminalis. We discussed the variations in the mitochondrial genomes of samples of each firefly from different populations. The mitochondrial genomes of Abs. terminalis and P. qingyu are very stable among their different populations. The mitochondrial genome of E. pseudosauteri shows some variations among the different populations, especially in the COI sequence.

Keywords:

• Pygoluciola qingyu
• Emeia pseudosauteri
• Abscondita terminalis
• mitochondrial genome
• variation

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Doc. Xinlei Zhu and Zhuo Yang for teaching us to analyze data and we also thank other colleagues and students for helping us to collect firefly specimens used in this study.

Disclosure statement

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

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [#31872281].