The complete mitochondrial genome of the Jackson’s leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

The Jackson’s leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Sharpe 1896), is a leaf-mimicking species from tropical East Africa. Genome skimming by Illumina sequencing permitted the assembly of the complete circular M. jacksoni 15,183 bp mitogenome. It consists of 79.4% AT nucleotides, 22 tRNAs, 13 protein-codin...

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Autores principales: Alexiuk, Mackenzie R., Marcus, Jeffrey M., Lalonde, Melanie M. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
Materias:
Mitogenome Announcement
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7782007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33458145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1814885
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Sumario:The Jackson’s leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Sharpe 1896), is a leaf-mimicking species from tropical East Africa. Genome skimming by Illumina sequencing permitted the assembly of the complete circular M. jacksoni 15,183 bp mitogenome. It consists of 79.4% AT nucleotides, 22 tRNAs, 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs, and a control region in the typical butterfly gene order. Mallika jacksoni COX1 has a CGA start codon while ATP6, COX1, COX2, ND3, ND4, and ND5 exhibit partial stop codons completed by 3′-A residues added to the mRNA. Phylogenetic reconstruction places M. jacksoni as sister to Kallima within nymphalid tribe Kallimini.

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