The complete mitochondrial genome of a medical important wasp, Vespa magnifica (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Abstract

Vespa magnifica (Smith) is an aggressive social wasp species of Vespidae family. This species is of medical importance for its dangerous sting, traditional medicinal use and valuable venom components. Here, a complete mitogenome of V. magnifica was presented. It was 16,730 bp in length with nucleotide composition of AT: 79.4% and CG: 20.6%. In total, 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA, and two ribosomal RNA genes were annotated in this mitogenome. Phylogenetic analysis was performed using V. magnifica with 20 other species of Vespidae. The result indicated those species of genus Vespa fell into a paraphyletic group. Moreover, the Vespa species with large body size were clustered into a clade. This mitogenome resource can contribute to further phylogenetic and taxonomic study on genus Vespa.

Keywords:

• Mitogenome
• Vespidae
• venom
• sting
• phylogenetic

Disclosure statement

All authors announce no conflicts of interest in the present paper.

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. MT137097.2. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA703057, SRS8300133 and SAMN18011289 respectively.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank FM Meng ([email protected]) and ZC Liu ([email protected]) for sample collection and permission to use the mitochondrial resource in the present paper.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation [Grant No. kq2014013].