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Abstract
The Great Marquis or Bassarona dunya is a butterfly species commonly found in the tropical regions of Asia, America, and Africa. This butterfly is a member of the subfamily Limenitidinae and the classification within this subfamily has been unstable. Here, we report the first complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of B. dunya sampled from Malaysia. The mitogenome is 15,242 bp long, comprising a set of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and an A + T rich region. All PCGs were initiated by the typical ATN codon, except for COX1 which started with a CGA start codon. Nine PCGs were terminated with a TAA or TAG stop codon, while COX1, COX2, NAD4, and NAD5 ended with an incomplete T. The 12S and 16S rRNAs were 716 bp and 1269 bp in length, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis supported the placement of B. dunya within Limenitidinae with a high support value.
Acknowledgements
This work was done with the permission by the Forestry Department of Peninsular Malaysia under the Research permit JH/100 Jld. 30 (18).
Author contributions
Marylin Miga: conceptualization, methodology, data curation, software, and writing – original draft preparation. Yap Yong Zi: data curation, methodology, data validation, reviewing, and editing. Puteri Nur Syahzanani Jahari: conceptualization, methodology, software, data validation, reviewing, and editing. Sivachandran Parimannan and Heera Rajandas: formal analysis, resources, and funding acquisition. Muhammad Abu Bakar-Latiff and Yap Jing Wei: methodology and funding acquisition. Mohd Shahir Shamsir: methodology. Faezah Mohd Salleh: conceptualization, methodology, resources, reviewing and editing, supervision and funding acquisition. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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. ON165248. The associated BioProject, SRA, and BioSample numbers are PRJNA753627, SRR15422669, and SAMN20720549, respectively.