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The complete mitochondrial genome of Spilonota lechriaspis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

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We determined the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome (mtgenome) of Spilonota lechriaspis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). The entire closed circular molecule is 15,368 bp and contains 37 genes with the typical gene complement and order for lepidopteran mtgenomes. All tRNAs except tRNASer(AGN) can be folded into the typical cloverleaf secondary structures. The protein-coding genes (PCGs) have typical mitochondrial start codons, with the exception of COI, which uses the unusual CGA one as is found in all other Lepidoptera sequenced to date. In addition, six of 13 PCGs harbor the incomplete termination codons, a single T. The A + T-rich region contains some conserved structures that are similar to those found in other lepidopteran mtgenomes, including a structure combining the motif ‘ATAGA’, a 19-bp poly(T) stretch and three microsatellite (AT)n elements which are part of larger 122+ bp macrorepeats. This is the first report of macrorepeats in a lepidopteran mtgenome.

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Acknowledgments

Prof. Qi-Lian Qin and his lab members (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) kindly provide advices and facilities in sequence cloning. We also thank Wen-juan Xuan and Na-na Liu (College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University), Fu-qiang Chen, Feng Yuan, Wen-fu Li (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for their comments on the manuscript and kindly help in specimen identification or data analysis. This project was supported mainly by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (6081002), the Public Welfare Project from the Ministry of Agriculture, China (Grant no. 200803006), and partially by the Innovation Program in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-NF-02), grants from the National Science Foundation, China (30870268, J0930004) to Chaodong Zhu.

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210046, China

    Jin-Liang Zhao, Yan-Yan Zhang & Guo-Fang Jiang

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

    Jin-Liang Zhao, A-Rong Luo & Chao-Dong Zhu

  3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, P. O. Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

    Stephen L. Cameron

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Zhao, JL., Zhang, YY., Luo, AR. et al. The complete mitochondrial genome of Spilonota lechriaspis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Mol Biol Rep 38, 3757–3764 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-010-0491-6

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