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- Title
First Description of the Mitogenome and Phylogeny of Culicinae Species from the Amazon Region.
- Authors
do Nascimento, Bruna Laís Sena; da Silva, Fábio Silva; Nunes-Neto, Joaquim Pinto; de Almeida Medeiros, Daniele Barbosa; Cruz, Ana Cecília Ribeiro; da Silva, Sandro Patroca; da Silva e Silva, Lucas Henrique; de Oliveira Monteiro, Hamilton Antônio; Dias, Daniel Damous; Vieira, Durval Bertram Rodrigues; Rosa Jr., José Wilson; Brandão, Roberto Carlos Feitosa; Chiang, Jannifer Oliveira; Martins, Livia Carício; da Costa Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando
- Abstract
The Culicidae family is distributed worldwide and comprises about 3587 species subdivided into the subfamilies Anophelinae and Culicinae. This is the first description of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences from Aedes fluviatilis, Aedeomyia squamipennis, Coquillettidia nigricans, Psorophora albipes, and Psorophora ferox. The mitogenomes showed an average length of 15,046 pb and 78.02% AT content, comprising 37 functional subunits (13 protein coding genes, 22 tRNAs, and two rRNAs). The most common start codons were ATT/ATG, and TAA was the stop codon for all PCGs. The tRNAs had the typical leaf clover structure, except tRNASer1. Phylogeny was inferred by analyzing the 13 PCGs concatenated nucleotide sequences of 48 mitogenomes. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analysis placed Ps. albipes and Ps. ferox in the Janthinosoma group, like the accepted classification of Psorophora genus. Ae. fluviatilis was placed in the Aedini tribe, but was revealed to be more related to the Haemagogus genus, a result that may have been hampered by the poor sampling of Aedes sequences. Cq. nigricans clustered with Cq. chrysonotum, both related to Mansonia. Ae. squamipennis was placed as the most external lineage of the Culicinae subfamily. The yielded topology supports the concept of monophyly of all groups and ratifies the current taxonomic classification.
- Subjects
PHYLOGENY; SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA; GENETIC code; AEDES
- Publication
Genes, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 12, p1983
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.3390/genes12121983