The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the hawkmoth, Ambulyx tobii (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Yin-Feng Meng; Guo-Tao Lv; Yi-Xin Huang; Xu Wang; Yong-Ling Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2059407

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the hawkmoth, Ambulyx tobii (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Apr 5;7(4):629-631. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2059407. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yin-Feng Meng¹, Guo-Tao Lv², Yi-Xin Huang³, Xu Wang⁴, Yong-Ling Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Biology Pharmacy and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo, China.
² Datong Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Datong, China.
³ School of Ecology and Environment, Collaborative Innovation Center of Recovery and Reconstruction of Degraded Ecosystem in Wanjiang Basin Co-founded by Anhui Province and Ministry of Education, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
⁴ College of Life Sciences, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.

Abstract

In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome of Ambulyx tobii to compare mitochondrial genome structures and reconstruct phylogenetic relationships. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of A. tobii is circular, 15,343 bp in size and encodes 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), and a control region (CR). Nucleotide composition is highly biased toward A + T nucleotides (81.2%). Most PCGs initiate with the standard start codon of ATN and terminate with the typical stop codon TAA/TAG. Phylogenetic analyses were performed using both 13 PCGs and whole mitochondrial genomes showed that A. tobii is closely related to A. substrigilis.

Keywords: Bombycoidea; Dabie Mountain; Mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Specialized Research Fund of Education Department of Shaanxi Province [21JK0618], the Scientific Research Foundation of Shangluo University [20SKY009], the Natural Science Fund of Anhui Province [1908085QC93], and Natural Science Foundation of Universities of Anhui Province [KJ2020A0094].