The mitochondrial genome of an important edible insect species, the African palm weevil (Rhynchophorus phoenicis)

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Figure 1. Three adult individuals of Rhynchophorus phoenicis (photo credit BJR; OnePlus 8, f/1.8, 1/1000). The species generally reaches body lengths, including the rostrum, of 3.5–4.5 cm (Tanyi Tambe et al. 2013).

Table 1. Publicly available mitochondrial genomes used in the phylogenetic analyses.

Species	GenBank accession number	Citation
Rhynchophorus phoenicis	OR466183	This study
Aclees cribratus	NC_051548	Wang et al. (2020)
Alcidodes juglans	NC_041669	Xu et al. (2019)
Apis mellifera	NC_051932	Unpublished
Megasoma elephas	OK484310	Ayivi et al. (2021)
Oryctes rhinoceros	NC_059756	Unpublished
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus	KT428893	Zhang et al. (2017)
Sipalinus gigas	NC_053351	Unpublished
Sitophilus oryzae	NC_030765	Ojo et al. (2016)
Sitophilus zeamais	NC_030764	Ojo et al. (2016)

Figure 2. The mitochondrial genome of the African palm weevil (Rhynchophorus phoenicis). The 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA, and two rRNA genes are shown in green, red, and orange, respectively. This plot was produced in MitoZ (Meng et al. 2019). GC content, in 50 bp windows, is shown by the blue bars, with the red ring that of 50% GC content, and genome-wide depth coverage is shown by the purple ring.

Figure 3. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of nine coleopteran mitogenomes, including the new assembly produced here (in blue), and a single hymenopteran outgroup. Bootstrap support values, as a percentage of 1000 replicates, are given on nodes. GenBank accession numbers for publicly obtained sequences are shown in brackets and the papers they derive from are given in Table 1. Branch lengths are proportional to the number of substitutions per site (see scale bar).

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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 accession no. OR466183. Associated BioProject, SRA, and BioSample numbers are PRJNA1037096, SRR26723342, and SAMN38162519, respectively.