Mitochondrial gene rearrangement within genus Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae)

  • Shujun We ,
  • Lijun Cao ,
  • Qiuling Wu ,
  • Chaodon Zhu
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  • 1Institute of Plant and Environmental Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China; E-mail: shujun268@163.com

    2College of Agronomy and Plant Protection, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China

    3Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Online published: 2016-04-24

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This study was provided jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472025, 31101661) and 973 Program of China (2013CB127600).

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Gasteruption parvicollarium Enderlein (GenBank accession number: KR270643) was sequenced in the study. Totally 17 009 bp sequence was determined with an A+T content of 83.81%, including full set of typical animal mitochondrial genes. Two protein-coding and 10 tRNA genes as well as the A+T-rich region were rearranged compared with the putative ancestral arrangement of insects. Most of the rearranged genes were located in the ancestral region of trnI-trnQ-trnM-nad2-trnW-trnC-trnY- cox1-trnL2. The other rearranged genes are trnN and trnS1 located in the tRNA cluster trnA- trnR-trnN-trnS1-trnE-trnF and trnS2 located between cob and nad1. Remote inversion is dominant rearrangement event in G. parvicollarium mitochondrial genome, involving two protein-coding and 8 tRNA genes. Compared with the other mitochondrial genome reported in the same genus of Gasteruption, the inverted trnN was translocated to the tRNA cluster between cox1 and nad2 in G. parvicollarium. This is the first report of mitochondrial gene rearrangement occurred within genus of Hymenoptera. Our study points to a recently occurred gene rearrangement event in the Gasteruption species.

Cite this article

Shujun We , Lijun Cao , Qiuling Wu , Chaodon Zhu . Mitochondrial gene rearrangement within genus Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2016 , 41(2) : 133 -139 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.201611

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