Complete mitochondrial genome of the longhorn date palm stem borer Jebusaea hammerschmidtii (Reiche, 1878)

Abstract

The 15,619 bp mitochondrial genome of Jebusaea hammerschmidtii was assembled from short reads, annotated, and compared to the genomes of other longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). Gene content was typical of animal mitochondrial genomes and contained 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, and 2 rRNA genes. Gene organization was identical to that of other longhorn beetles. Phylogenetic analysis placed J. hammerschmidtii within the subfamily Cerambycinae, and strongly supported the monophyly of the Cerambycinae, Lamiinae, and Prioninae subfamilies.

Keywords:

• mtDNA
• date palm stem borer
• longhorn beetle
• Coleoptera
• Cerambycidae

Acknowledgements

We thank Julia Portocarrero and Magdy Alabady at the University of Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics Core for assistance with library preparation and sequencing.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The annotated mitochondrial genome described here is available in GenBank under accession MZ054170 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MZ054170). Raw mitochondrial reads used for assembly are available in the SRA under accession SRR14321410 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRR14321410).

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Funding

This study was supported in part by resources from the Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center, and funding from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.