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The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Aleochara Postica Walker, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B 2021, VOL. 6, NO. 7, 1994–1996 https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1938726 MITOGENOME ANNOUNCEMENT The complete mitochondrial genome of Aleochara postica Walker, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Yanpeng Cai School of Basic Medicine, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guizhou, China ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The complete mitochondrial genome of Aleochara postica Walker, 1858 was determined in this study. It Received 31 March 2021 is 15,473 bps in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a Accepted 29 May 2021 778 bp A þ T-rich control region. Most PCGs use the conventional ATN start codon, except for cox1 and KEYWORDS nad1. Two genes (cox1 and cox3) use single T residue as stop codon rather than the routinely used Aleochara postica; TAA or TAG. All tRNAs, except for TrnS1, exhibit the cloverleaf secondary structure. ML phylogenetic A. postica mitochondrial genome; analysis using 13 PCGs of 52 beetle species indicated that was clustered with other members Staphylinidae; phylogen- of the subfamily Aleocharinae as conventional taxonomy predicted. etic analysis Aleochara postica Walker, 1858, a rove beetle species, belongs Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, China (Yanpeng Cai, cyp815@hot- to the genus Aleochara Gravenhorst (Staphylinidae: mail.com, Voucher specimens: GZUTCM:002). Aleocharinae: Aleocharini). Aleochara with more than 500 The complete circular mitogenome of A. postica (GenBank: species distributed worldwide is not only one of the most MW284907) is 15,473 bps in length, containing the typical speciose genera in Aleocharinae, but also a distinctive group metazoan mitochondrial genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 in lifestyle (Klimaszewski 1984; Caron et al. 2019). Most of its tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes) and a 778 bp long A þ T-rich con- species have their larvae specifically feeding on pupae of trol region. Most PCGs of A. postica use conventional start cyclorrhaphous Diptera as ectoparasitoids, and adult beetles codons (ATN) and stop codons (TAA or TAG). Whereas, cox1 preying on dipteran eggs and larvae (Luo and Zhou 2012; and nad1 genes initiate with putative start codons GAT and Yamamoto and Maruyama 2016; Caron et al. 2019). Thus, TTG respectively, cox1 and cox3 genes use single T as incom- they could be utilized for biological control against noxious plete stop codon. Twenty-one out of 22 tRNAs exhibit the flies (Yamamoto and Maruyama 2016; Caron et al. 2019). typical clover-leaf structure. TrnS1 as the only exception lacks Nevertheless, no complete mitogenome of Aleochara was the DHU arm, and that the anticodon of trnS1 is UCU instead available so for. In compensation, we present herein the of routinely used GCU. complete mitogenome of A. postica, which is widely distrib- The ML phylogenetic tree was reconstructed using IQTREE uted in China, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, and much of Oriental V.2.07 (Nguyen et al. 2015) for family Staphylinidae, based on region (Yamamoto and Maruyama 2016). In our study, the 13 PCGs of A. postica plus 51 species obtained from adults were collected in 2020, from Guiyang Huaxi District GenBank, among which two representatives of Leiodidae (2623’0600N, 10636’5600E, 1163 m), Guizhou, China, using were selected as outgroups (Lin et al. 2018). The partitioning maggoty dead fish bait. scheme for the three codon positions of the 13 genes was The high-throughput sequencing was performed at determined by the TESTMERGE option in IQTREE. Ten parti- Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., China, using Illumina tions were finally divided and allocated with their own best HiSeq2500 platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA). The de novo fit substitution model and parameters (GTR þ F þ I þ G4, assembly of mitogenome and correctness check were carried GTR þ F þ I þ G4, GTR þ F þ I þ G4, TN þ FþG4, GTR þ F þ I out with the software combination of SPAdes V.3.14.1 þ G4, TVM þ F þ I þ G4, TN þ FþG4, GTR þ F þ I þ G4, (Bankevich et al. 2012), MitoZ V.2.3 (Meng et al. 2019), and K3Pu þ F þ I þ G4, TN þ F þ I þ G4). 1000 replicates of stand- Pilon V.1.23 (Walker et al. 2014). MITOS Web Server (http:// ard bootstrap analysis were executed to produce the boot- mitos2.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/index.py) was utilized for annota- strap support values. As a result, seven subfamilies with tion. The remaining alcohol-preserved specimen tissue and multiple available representatives (Aleocharinae, Omaliinae, the total DNA after sequencing were deposited under À20 C Paederinae, Pselaphinae, Scaphidiinae, Staphylininae, in the Insect Collection of Guizhou University of Traditional Steninae) were recovered as monophyla. Paederinae was a CONTACT Yanpeng Cai [email protected] School of Basic Medicine, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dongqingnanlu Road, Huaxi District, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, China ß 2021 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 1995 Figure 1. The ML phylogenetic tree was built from A. postica (in bold font) and 51 other species. Bootstrap support values were labeled at nodes. GenBank acces- sion numbers of each species were listed in the tree. sibling group to Staphylininae which was supported by mul- References tiple previous studies (e.g. Mckenna et al. 2015; Tihelka et al. 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