The mitochondrial genome of Ectropis dentilineata Moore, 1868 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from tea plantations in Guizhou province, China

Abstract

Ectropis dentilineata Moore, 1868 has a wide geographic distribution while its genome data are largely unknown. In this study, we collected samples of E. dentilineata from a tea plantation in Guizhou province, China. Illumina sequencing showed that the mitochondrial genome of E. dentilineata is 15,356 bp in length, containing the entire set of 37 mitochondrial genes. Several tRNAs show gene arrangements compared with the ancestral gene order, mainly involving the tRNA cluster (M-I-Q). These data will facilitate a deeper understanding and exploitation of E. dentilineata.

KEYWORDS:

• Geometrid moth
• Ectropis
• mitochondrial genome
• tea pests

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Xiao-Han Shu and Xi-QianYe of Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University for their help with the preparation of figures in this paper.

Author contributions statement

Conceptualization, Zhizhi Wang, Xiaogui Zhou and Xuexin Chen; software, Ruizhong Yuan, Pu Tang and Zhaohe Lu; writing – original draft preparation, Zhaohe Lu and Ruizhong Yuan; writing – review and editing, Zhizhi Wang, Pu Tang and Xuexin Chen; investigation, Xiaogui Zhou and Ruizhong Yuan; project administration, Zhizhi Wang, Pu Tang and Xuexin Chen; funding acquisition, Zhizhi Wang and Xuexin Chen. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Ethical approval

Ectropis dentilineata is a widely distributed Lepidoptera pest and is not a protected species. Therefore, the collection and research process are conventional and do not need to follow strict standards. This study did not involve ethical approval, and the field investigation was supported by the Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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. OP009386. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA869498, SRR21047336, SAMN30308888 SAMN35736986, and SAMN35736987, respectively.

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Funding

This work was jointly supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan (2019YFD1002101); the Key Project of Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture (NT2021003); and the Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province (2021C02045).