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The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Plagiodera Versicolora (Laicharting)(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B 2020, VOL. 5, NO. 3, 3600–3601 https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1829138 MITOGENOME ANNOUNCEMENT The complete mitochondrial genome of Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting)(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Wei-Wei Xiea,b, Liang-Jing Shenga,b, Yi Wana,b, Xiao-Qian Wenga,b, Guang-Hong Lianga,b, Fei-Ping Zhanga,b and Hui Chena aCollege of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China; bKey Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Ecological Forests, Fujian Province University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharting) is a leaf-eating pest widely distributed in the world. In this study, Received 11 September 2020 the first complete mitochondrial genome of P. Versicolora (Laicharting) was assembled and analyzed. Accepted 18 September 2020 The complete mitochondrial genome of P. Versicolora (Laicharting) is 16,857 bp with 22.39% GC con- KEYWORDS taining, 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA (tRNA), 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA), as well as an AT-rich Complete mitochondrial region. Phylogenomic analysis indicated that P. Versicolora (Laicharting) is sister to Chrysomela genome; Plagiodera populiThis study provides useful information for the identification of this species and the study of gen- versicolora; phyloge- etic evolution with other species of Chrysomelidae. nomic analysis Plagiodern Versicolora (Laicharting) is classified as accession No: MT826862). Three characteristics of protein- Chrysomelida of Coleoptera, which is one of the major pests coding sequence, tRNA, and rRNA were obtained by of poplar and willow (Wade 1994).This insect is widely distrib- mitoMaker (Bernt et al. 2013). Also, tRNA genes were pre- uted in the world, including Asia, Europe and North America. dicted by tRNAscan software (Lowe and Eddy 1997). Finally, a However, its genome information is still unclear at present total of 37 genes were annotated, including 13 protein-cod- (De et al. 2005). In this study, the complete mitochondrial ing genes, 22 transfer RNA (tRNA), and 2 ribosomal genome of P. Versicolora (Laicharting) was reported for the RNA(rRNA), as well as and an AT-rich region. To confirm the first time, which is of great significance for understanding its phylogeny of P. Versicolora (Laicharting), the other 11 com- evolution and population genetics. plete genomes were obtained from GenBank and were The samples of P. Versicolora (Laicharting) were collected aligned using HomBlocks software (Bi et al. 2018). A neigh- by the traps from Minhou, Fujian Province, China bor-joining (NJ) tree (Saitou 1987) with 1000 bootstrap repli- (119403500E, 26140900N). All voucher specimens were cates was performed by MEGA 7.0 (Sudhir et al. 2016). The assigned with a unique code and deposited in the Key result of NJ phylogenetic tree indicate that P. Versicolora Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Ecological (Laicharting) is closely related to Chrysomela populi (Figure 1). Forests, Fujian Province University, Fujian Agriculture and The mitochondrial genome of P. Versicolora (Laicharting) will Forestry University (voucher no.YJ-202007). Total genomic provide useful genetic information for further study on gen- DNA were extracted from the legs of samples using TruSeq etic diversity and genetic evolution of Chrysomelidae species. DNA sample Preparation kit (Vanzyme, China). DNA quality and concentration were determined using Nanodrop (Thermo Disclosure statement Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). The multiple samples were mixed and sequenced by Illumina Hiseq 2500 (Genesky No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. Biotechnologies Inc. Shanghai, China). A total of 51,021,324 clean reads were obtained from the Funding 53,740,482 raw reads after filtration. After the de novo assem- This study was supported by Science and Technology Program of Fujian bly of metaSPAdes (Nurk et al. 2017), a 16,857 bp length Province (no. 2018N5002); Forestry Science Research Project of Fujian complete mitochondrial genome of P. Versicolora Forestry Department [no. Minlinke [2017] 03]; Major Scientific and (Laicharting) with 22.39% GC content was obtained (GenBank Technological Special Project of Fujian Province [no. 2017NZ0003-1-6]. CONTACT Hui Chen [email protected] College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Shangxiadian Road 15, JianXin Town Fuzhou, China ß 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B 3601 Figure 1. The neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic tree based on 12 mitochondrial genome. Values along branches correspond to ML bootstrap percentages. Data availability statement De YZ , Lin Z , Guang ZB , Jie F. 2005. Bionomics of Plagiodera versico- lora in the laboratory[J]. Entomological Knowledge.42(6):647–650. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Lowe TM, Eddy SR. 1997. tRNAscan-SE: a program for improved detection “ ” NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, reference number MT826862. of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence. Nucleic Acids Res. 25(5): 955–964. 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