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Rapid Communications

The validity of the subspecies, Teinopalpus aureus wuyiensis Lee, from complete mitochondrial genome

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Pages 2589-2591 | Received 14 Apr 2021, Accepted 16 Jul 2021, Published online: 09 Aug 2021
 

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome (mtgenome) was determined from the emerged-pupa shell (Noninvasive sampling) of T. aureus wuyiensis Lee. It was 15,234 base pairs in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and a control region. By taking Meandrusa sciron and Teinopalpus imperialis as outgroups, a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree was constructed among five geographical populations of Teinopalpus aureus based on 13 PCGs and two rRNA genes. Our results showed that the WYS, MHS and PS populations, locating at or closing to Wuyishan Mountain-range, were in one cluster; while the JLS (locating at Nanling Mountain-range) and DYS (locating at Dayaoshan Mountain closing to Nanling Mountain-range) populations belonged to another cluster. It supported well the subspecies of T. aureus wuyiensis, and suggested that the genetic relationship between T. a. guangxiensis and the nominal subspecies of T. a. aureus were closer enough to combine into one subspecies.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) under the Accession no. MW900433.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the helps or suggestions in field works from Prof. Zhou Xue-song, Prof. Liu Jia-zhu and Prof. Xu Zheng-hui of Southwest Forestry University, as well as Prof. Jia Feng-hai of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Thank Dr Deng Jun of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry for his help in gene annotation.

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31160430; 31760640] and partly supported by ‘Biodiversity Survey and Assessment [2019HJ2096001006]’ and ‘Open Fund of PYHKF Key Laboratory [PYHKF-2020-03]’ project.