Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of many deadly diseases.Mitogenomes have been widely used in phylogenetic studies,but mitogenome knowledge within the family Culicidae is limited,and Culicidae p...Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of many deadly diseases.Mitogenomes have been widely used in phylogenetic studies,but mitogenome knowledge within the family Culicidae is limited,and Culicidae phylogeny is far from resolved.In this study,we surveyed the mitogenomes of 149 Culicidae species,including 7 newly sequenced species.Comparative analysis of 149 mosquito mitogenomes shows gene composition and order to be identical to that of an ancestral insect,and the AT bias,length variation,and codon usage are all consistent with that of other reported Dipteran mitogenomes.Phylogenetic analyses based on the DNA sequences of the 13 protein-coding genes from the 149 species robustly support the monophyly of the subfamily Anophelinae and the tribes Aedini,Culicini,Mansonini,Sabethini,and Toxorhynchitini.To resolve ambiguous relationships between clades within the subfamily Culicinae,we performed topological tests and show that Aedini is a sister to Culicini and that Uranotaenini is a sister to(Mansonini)+(Toxorhynchitini+Sabethini).In addition,we estimated divergence times using a Bayesian relaxation clock based on the sequence data and 3 fossil calibration points.The results show mosquitoes diverged during the Early Jurassic with massive Culicinae radiations during the Cretaceous,coincident with the emergence of angiosperms and the burst of mammals and birds.Overall,this study,which uses the largest number of Culicidae mitogenomes sequenced to date,comprehensively reveals the mitogenome characteristics and mitogenome-based phylogeny and divergence times of Culicidae,providing information for further studies on the mitogenome,phylogeny,evolution,and taxonomic revision of Culicidae.展开更多
Dear editor,Functional genomics studies of mosquito vectors are crucial for understanding their physiological behavior,pathogen transmission,and evolution,and for providing essential molecular targets for genetic cont...Dear editor,Functional genomics studies of mosquito vectors are crucial for understanding their physiological behavior,pathogen transmission,and evolution,and for providing essential molecular targets for genetic control(Severson&Behura,201l;Alphey,2014;Ruzzante et al.,2019;Hong et al.,2022).The main methods involve clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9(Cas9)gene editing via embryo microinjection(Criscione et al.,2015;Kistler et al.,2015).展开更多
基金supported by the following:The National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872262,31672363)National Key Program of Science and Technology Foundation Work of China(2015FY210300)Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Education Commission of China(KJQN202000504,KJQN202200566).
文摘Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of many deadly diseases.Mitogenomes have been widely used in phylogenetic studies,but mitogenome knowledge within the family Culicidae is limited,and Culicidae phylogeny is far from resolved.In this study,we surveyed the mitogenomes of 149 Culicidae species,including 7 newly sequenced species.Comparative analysis of 149 mosquito mitogenomes shows gene composition and order to be identical to that of an ancestral insect,and the AT bias,length variation,and codon usage are all consistent with that of other reported Dipteran mitogenomes.Phylogenetic analyses based on the DNA sequences of the 13 protein-coding genes from the 149 species robustly support the monophyly of the subfamily Anophelinae and the tribes Aedini,Culicini,Mansonini,Sabethini,and Toxorhynchitini.To resolve ambiguous relationships between clades within the subfamily Culicinae,we performed topological tests and show that Aedini is a sister to Culicini and that Uranotaenini is a sister to(Mansonini)+(Toxorhynchitini+Sabethini).In addition,we estimated divergence times using a Bayesian relaxation clock based on the sequence data and 3 fossil calibration points.The results show mosquitoes diverged during the Early Jurassic with massive Culicinae radiations during the Cretaceous,coincident with the emergence of angiosperms and the burst of mammals and birds.Overall,this study,which uses the largest number of Culicidae mitogenomes sequenced to date,comprehensively reveals the mitogenome characteristics and mitogenome-based phylogeny and divergence times of Culicidae,providing information for further studies on the mitogenome,phylogeny,evolution,and taxonomic revision of Culicidae.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31772527,31872262)the Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing(No.CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX1355)+3 种基金the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(KJZDK202200507,KJQN202200533)the BAYU scholar program(YS2019027)the Venture and Innovation Support Program for Chongqing Overseas Returnees(No.cx2022052)the Graduate Research and Innovation Foundation of Chongqing under Grant(CYS23399).
文摘Dear editor,Functional genomics studies of mosquito vectors are crucial for understanding their physiological behavior,pathogen transmission,and evolution,and for providing essential molecular targets for genetic control(Severson&Behura,201l;Alphey,2014;Ruzzante et al.,2019;Hong et al.,2022).The main methods involve clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9(Cas9)gene editing via embryo microinjection(Criscione et al.,2015;Kistler et al.,2015).
