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An Integrated Approach for Microprotein Identification and Sequence Analysis
Published on: July 12, 2022
First mitogenome of the family Putoidae (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) and its phylogenetic implications
Yu-Ang Li1, Xinyi Zheng1, Han Xu1
1The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China Beijing Forestry University Beijing China.
Abstract:
Scale insects are significant pests impacting agriculture, forestry, and ornamental plants. They play a dual role in ecosystems, serving as a food source for insects like bees, producing pigments and wax. Mitochondrial genomes have been widely utilized in phylogenetic studies. However, the mitogenomes of scale insects currently available in GenBank fail to adequately represent the majority of families. In this paper, the first complete mitogenome of Putosinensis Zheng & Wu, 2025 is described, revealing previously unreported gene rearrangements in scale insects. It has a length of 18,830 bp and a high A+T content of 90.7%. Moreover, the phylogenetic analysis based on mitogenomic sequences shows that archaeococcoids are a paraphyletic group, with the family Putoidae being sister to all neococcoids - a finding consistent with results from nuclear gene and morphological data. This underscores the utility of mitochondrial genome data in reconstructing phylogenetic relationships within the infraorder Coccomorpha.
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