Anopheles minimus is an important vector of human malaria in southern China and Southeast Asia. The phylogenetics of mosquitoes has not been well resolved, and the mitochondrial genome （mtgenome） has proven to be an...Anopheles minimus is an important vector of human malaria in southern China and Southeast Asia. The phylogenetics of mosquitoes has not been well resolved, and the mitochondrial genome （mtgenome） has proven to be an important marker in the study of evolutionary biology. In this study, the complete mtgenome of An. minimus was sequenced for the first time. It is 15 395 bp long and encodes 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes （PCGs）, 22 transfer RNAs （tRNAs）, two ribosomal RNAs （rRNAs） and a non-coding region. The gene organization is consistent with those of known Anopheles mtgenomes. The mtgenome performs a clear bias in nucleotide composition with a positive AT-skew and a negative GC-skew. All 13 PCGs prefer to use the codon UUA （Leu）, ATN as initiation codon but cytochrome-oxidase subunit 1 （COI） and ND5, with TCG and GTG, and TAA as termination codon, but COI, COII, COIII and ND4, all with the incomplete T. tRNAs have the typical clover-leaf structure, but tRNAser^a~N） is consistent with known Anopheles mtgenomes. The control region includes a conserved T-stretch and a （TA）n stretch, and has the highest A＋T content at 93.1%. The phylogenetics of An. minimus with 18 other Anopheles species was constructed by maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, based on concatenated PCG sequences. The subgenera, Cellia and Anopheles, and Nyssorhynchus and Kerteszia have mutually close relationships, respectively. The Punctulatus group and Leueosphyrus group of Neomyzomyia Series, and the Albitarsis group of Albitarsis Series were suggested to be monophyletic. The monophyletic status of the subgenera, Cellia, Anopheles, Nyssorhynchus and Kerteszia need to be further elucidated.展开更多
基金Acknowledgments This work was supported by Par-Eu Scholars Program, The National Natural Science Foundation of China （31372265）, Coordinated Research Project of the International Atomic Energy Agency （18268/R0）, and National Key Program of Science and Technology Foundation Work of China （2015FY210300）. Conceived and designed the research： BC, YQH. Performed the experiments： YQH, ZTY, FLS, QCL. Analyzed the data and wrote the paper： YQH, BC, YRD.
文摘Anopheles minimus is an important vector of human malaria in southern China and Southeast Asia. The phylogenetics of mosquitoes has not been well resolved, and the mitochondrial genome （mtgenome） has proven to be an important marker in the study of evolutionary biology. In this study, the complete mtgenome of An. minimus was sequenced for the first time. It is 15 395 bp long and encodes 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes （PCGs）, 22 transfer RNAs （tRNAs）, two ribosomal RNAs （rRNAs） and a non-coding region. The gene organization is consistent with those of known Anopheles mtgenomes. The mtgenome performs a clear bias in nucleotide composition with a positive AT-skew and a negative GC-skew. All 13 PCGs prefer to use the codon UUA （Leu）, ATN as initiation codon but cytochrome-oxidase subunit 1 （COI） and ND5, with TCG and GTG, and TAA as termination codon, but COI, COII, COIII and ND4, all with the incomplete T. tRNAs have the typical clover-leaf structure, but tRNAser^a~N） is consistent with known Anopheles mtgenomes. The control region includes a conserved T-stretch and a （TA）n stretch, and has the highest A＋T content at 93.1%. The phylogenetics of An. minimus with 18 other Anopheles species was constructed by maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, based on concatenated PCG sequences. The subgenera, Cellia and Anopheles, and Nyssorhynchus and Kerteszia have mutually close relationships, respectively. The Punctulatus group and Leueosphyrus group of Neomyzomyia Series, and the Albitarsis group of Albitarsis Series were suggested to be monophyletic. The monophyletic status of the subgenera, Cellia, Anopheles, Nyssorhynchus and Kerteszia need to be further elucidated.
