The complete mitochondrial genome of the flea Hystrichopsylla weida qinlingensis (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsylla)

Abstract

The complete mitogenome sequence of the flea, Hystrichopsylla weida qinlingensis (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsylla) was sequenced. The 17,173 bp long genome has the standard metazoan complement of 37 genes. These genes contain 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and one control region. The nucleotide composition of the H. weida qinlingensis mitogenome was A: 39.10%, T: 41.49%, G:7.56%, and C: 11.85%. The A + T content is 80.59%, showing strong AT bias. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Hystrichopsylla has a close affinity with a branch of Dorcadia.

Keywords:

• Hystrichopsylla weida qinlingensis; flea
• Hystrichopsylla
• mitochondrial genome

Ethical approval

This study was carried out according to the guidelines for the care of experimental animals and was approved by the ethical committee of Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Data in this article do not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.

Authors contributions

Liangfei Tan: conceptualization, methodology, sampling, data analysis, visualization, writing – original draft preparation, writing-review and editing. Xuan Yao: writing-review and editing. Jingyuan Liu: guide specimen collection and identification. Chaoliang Lei: writing-review and editing. Qiuying Huang: conceptualization, methodology, writing-review, and editing. Bing Hu: conceptualization, writing-review, and editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript as submitted and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Acknowledgements

We appreciated Dr. Xiaoyun Wang for the assistance of submitting sequences to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the GenBank database at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MH259703, under accession number [MH259703]. The associated ‘BioProject’, ‘SRA’, and ‘Bio-Sample’ numbers are PRJNA811436, SRR18186810, and SAMN26332311, respectively.

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Funding

The research was financially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China of NSFC under Grant No. [31572017] and Innovation Team Project of Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention [WJ2016JT-007].