Complete mitochondrial genomes of two damselfly species in coenagrionidae and phylogenetic implications

Bin Jiang; Jia Li; Yongmei Zhang; Yang Sun; Shulin He; Guozhi Yu; Guosheng Lv; Dirk J Mikolajewski

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1955635

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two damselfly species in coenagrionidae and phylogenetic implications

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 25;6(8):2445-2448. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1955635. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Bin Jiang¹, Jia Li¹, Yongmei Zhang¹, Yang Sun¹, Shulin He², Guozhi Yu³, Guosheng Lv¹, Dirk J Mikolajewski⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
² Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Science Prague, Prague, Czech Republich.
³ College of Life Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
⁴ Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Agriocnemis femina (Brauer, 1868) and Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842) are two damselflies inhabiting paddy lands. As an intermediate predator, they play an important role in controlling certain crop pest and mosquitoes. In this study, we sequenced complete mitogenomes of these two species. The total length of mitogenomes is 15,936 bp in A. femina and 15,762 bp in I. senegalensis. Both of mitogenomes consist of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and one control region. The close relationship between I. senegalensis and I. elegans was further proved by phylogenetic analysis. Our phylogenetic analysis indicated a clear two lineages in Coenagrionidae (Core and ridge-faced Coenagrionidae). Ridge-faced Coenagrionidae consisted of Megaloprepus caerulatus and Ceriagrion fallax. In core Coenagrionidae, Ischnura and Enallagma are most closely related; they formed one clade with Agriocnemis and then grouped together with Paracerion. Our study provides new genetic information for further study in phylogenetic analysis of Coenagrionidae.

Keywords: Coenagrionidae; damselfly; mitogenomes; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Provincial Natural Science Research Project of Higher Education of Anhui Province [KJ2019A0483], Special Funds for Supporting Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Returned Oversea-students in Anhui Province [2020LCX035], Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [Youth project, 2008085QC148], Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases in Anhui Normal University [fzmx202007], Start-up Funding of Anhui Normal University for Doctoral Research [751914], The Major Science and Technology Projects in Anhui Province [202003a06020009], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871964] and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources.