Complete mitogenome sequence of Anopheles coustani from São Tomé island

Abstract

We report the first complete mitogenome (Mt) sequence of Anopheles coustani, an understudied malaria vector in Africa. The sequence was extracted from one individual mosquito from São Tomé island. The length of the A. coustani Mt genome was 15,408 bp with 79.3% AT content. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that A. coustani is most closely related to A. sinensis (93.5% of identity); and 90.1% identical to A. gambiae complex members.

Keywords:

• Mosquito
• Africa
• malaria vector
• genome
• sequencing

Acknowledgements

We thank the University of California-Irvine, Malaria Initiative (UCIMI) and The Open Philanthropy Project for their support. We thank the National Malaria Control Program personnel and, Ministry of Health in São Tomé and Príncipe who facilitated our field collections in São Tomé. We thank Dr. Travis C. Collier (UC Davis) who has maintained the genomics data analysis throughout this project.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available in Genbank (mitogenome: MT806097; ITS2: MT791041). The meta data associated with it as well as the access to the DNA specimen is available through PopI (https://popi.ucdavis.edu/) with sample ID 1219-ST-PGA3-033.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the University of California Irvine Malaria Initiative, the Open Philanthropy.