The complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered butterfly Luehdorfia taibai Chou (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)

Abstract

We have determined the complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered butterfly, Luehdorfia taibai. The total lenth of the L. taibai mitogenome is 15,553 bp with 81% A + T content. It consists of 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, 2 rRNA genes and an A + T-rich region. All the protein-coding genes used ATN as start codon and TAA as stop codon, except for COI gene, which used CGA as start codon. The A + T-rich region was 939 bp in lenth with 95% A + T content. L. taibai mitogenome contained an extra tRNA^Leu, located from 191 bp to 259 bp, of which function was not clear.

• Lepidoptera
• Luehdorfia taibai
• mitochondrial genome
• Papilionidae

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr Yuan Huang (College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University) for assistance with the analytic software.