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Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Loxocephala perpunctata (Hemiptera: Eurybrachidae)
Shi-Yan Xu1, Xiang-Sheng Chen2
1College of Life Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
Abstract:
In this study, we sequenced and annotated the complete mitochondrial genome of Loxocephala perpunctata (Jacobi, 1944) (Hemiptera: Eurybrachidae). The mitogenome of L. perpunctata is 15,017 bp long and includes 37 genes and a large control region. Consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a D-loop. All protein-coding genes have the usual ATN start codons, except for ND5, which uses the noncanonical codon GTG. 22 tRNAs, the length ranging from 59 to 69 bp, having the clover-leaf structure except for the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm of trnS2 forming a simple loop.
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