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MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B-RESOURCES
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 3109-3111Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1964403
Keywords
Lonchodinae; mitogenome; phylogeny
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- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LY18C040004]
- College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of China [201910345030, 202010345026, 202110345014]
- College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Zhejiang Province [202010345R128]
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Lonchodinae, a subfamily of the Phasmatidae family, is rich in insect species with over 330 species across 40 genera. The phylogenetic relationships within Lonchodinae have been debated, but the sequencing of Eurycantha calcarata mitochondrial genome suggests a sister relationship with Phylliinae.
The Lonchodinae (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) is rich in insect species with more than 330 species of 40 genera. The phylogenetic relationships within Lonchodinae have been under debate. We successfully sequenced the complete mitogenome of Eurycantha calcarata Lucas, 1869 (Phasmatodea: Lonchodinae) with a length of 16,280 bp, which had the same genes and gene arrangements as those of various published papers on stick insects. The whole mitogenome and control region of E. calcarata had a high AT content of 78.2 and 85.9%, respectively. All PCGs used ATN as the start codon, and most PCGs used TAA/TAG as the stop codons excluding COX2 (T), COX3 (TA), and ND5 (TA). To discuss the phylogeny of Lonchodinae, we reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships of 27 species of Phasmatodea including E. calcarata and two species of Embioptera used as outgroups. In BI and ML trees, the monophyly of Lonchodinae and Necrosciinae was well supported, whereas the monophyly of Clitumninae was not recovered. These results indicated that Lonchodinae was a sister clade to Phylliinae and E. calcarata was a sister clade to Phraortes genus.
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