Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the alien hornet Vespa velutina (Insecta: Hymenoptera) invading Kyushu Island, Japan

Figures & data

Figure 1. Phylogenetic relationships (maximum likelihood) of the Vespidae based on nucleotide sequences of the 13 protein-coding genes of the mitochondrial genome. The numbers at the nodes indicate bootstrap support inferred from 1000 bootstrap replicates. Alphanumeric terms indicate the GenBank accession numbers. Vespa ducalis, V. orientalis, V. mandarinia, V. affinis, Vespula germanica, Dolichovespula panda, Polistes. sp., P. jakohamae, and Abispa ephippium (Cameron et al. 2008; Chen et al. 2016; Song et al. 2016; Wei et al. 2016; Zhou et al. 2016; Fan et al. 2017; Haddad et al. 2017; Kim et al. 2017; Okuyama et al. 2017) were used as outgroup.

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