The complete mitochondrial genome of the Chinese oak silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

  1. Yanqun Liu1,2,
  2. Yuping Li2,
  3. Minhui Pan1,
  4. Fangyin Dai1,
  5. Xuwei Zhu3,
  6. Cheng Lu1,*,
  7. Zhonghuai Xiang1

Article first published online: 12 AUG 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2008.00449.x

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Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica

Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica

Volume 40, Issue 8, pages 693–703, August 2008

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Liu, Y., Li, Y., Pan, M., Dai, F., Zhu, X., Lu, C. and Xiang, Z. (2008), The complete mitochondrial genome of the Chinese oak silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 40: 693–703. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2008.00449.x

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  1. 1

    The Key Sericultural Laboratory of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China

  2. 2

    Department of Sericulture, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110161, China

  3. 3

    Sericultural Experiment Station of Henan Province, Nanyang 474676, China

* *Correspondence author: Tel, 86-23-68250659; Fax, 86-23-68251128; E-mail, lucheng@swu.edu.cn

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 12 AUG 2008
  2. Article first published online: 12 AUG 2008
  3. Received: March 27, 2008 Accepted: May 26, 2008

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Keywords:

  • Chinese oak silkworm;
  • Antheraea pernyi;
  • mitochondrial genome;
  • Lepidoptera;
  • Saturniidae

We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the mitogenome from Chinese oak silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). The 15,566 bp circular genome contains atypical gene organization and order for lepidopteran mitogenomes. The mitogenome contains the lowest A+T content (80.16%) among the known lepidopteran mitogenome sequences. An unusual feature is the occurrence of more Ts than As, with a slightly negative AT skewness (−0.021), in the composition of the major genome strand. All protein-coding genes are initiated by ATN codons, except for cytochrome oxidase subunit I, which is proposed by the TTAG sequence as observed in other lepidopterans. All transfer RNAs (tRNAs) have a typical clover-leaf structure of mitochondrial tRNA, except for tRNASer(AGN), the DHU arm of which could not form a stable stem-loop structure. Two aligned sequence blocks with a length of more than 50 bp and 90% of the sequence identity were identified in the A+T-rich region of the Saturniidae and Bombycoidae species.

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