The complete mitochondrial genome of Cermatobius longicornis (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae)

Abstract

The first complete mitogenome sequence of Henicopidae is reported herein. The mitochondrial genome of Cermatobius longicornis (Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) is a circular molecule of 16,833 bp in length. It contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs, a control region and a pseudo control region. The comparability of the last 396 bp between the control region and the pseudo control region is 70.3%. The alpha strand has the following nucleotide composition: A = 4858 (28.86%), T = 5813 (34.53%), C = 3184 (18.92%) and G = 2978 (17.69%). GC- and AT-skews for the alpha strand, which can reflect the base compositional differences between the two strands, are − 0.03 and 0.09, respectively. The gene order of C. longicornis is identical to that of Limulus polyphemus, except for the extra pseudo control region.

Keywords::

• Mitochondrial
• Myriapoda
• Chilopoda
• Lithobiomorpha
• Henicopidae

Declaration of interest : This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30900131, 31172057 and 40972001), the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Science (KZCX2-YW-JC104), State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (NIGPAS) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Notice of CorrectionIn the version of this article published online ahead of print on 25 January 2013, the sentences in the abstract regarding the alpha strand nucleotide composition contained incorrect data. The data has been corrected for this version.