Liao Yiyuan, Lu Shengli, Chen Haihong, Zhang Dayu
The Key Laboratory for Quality Improvement of Agricultural Products of Zhejiang Province, College of Agricultural and Food Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Linan, China.
Yuyao Housing Safety Management and Service Center, Yuyao, China.
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Jun 26;3(2):699-700. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1481793.
The complete circular mitochondrial genome of a higher termite has a length of 15,224bp and encodes 37 genes including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA), 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and a non-coding control region (D-loop). Protein coding genes (PCGs) in this circular mitogenome start with standard ATN initiation codons and end with complete termination codons TAN except for and genes with an incomplete stop codon T. The percentage of A and T (67.49%) is higher than that of G and C (32.51%). The phylogenetic tree revealed that mitogenomes of Pericapritermes formed one clade. The tree also revealed that and constituted a sister group to . The date here provide a resource for genetics and evolution analysis within termites especially Pericapritermes genus.
