The complete mitochondrial genome of the smallest known free-living insect Scydosella musawasensis

Artem Nedoluzhko; Fedor Sharko; Eugenia Boulygina; Svetlana Tsygankova; Alexey Sokolov; Alexander Mazur; Alexey Polilov; Egor Prokhortchouk; Konstantin Skryabin

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1149785

The complete mitochondrial genome of the smallest known free-living insect Scydosella musawasensis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Mar 28;1(1):171-172. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1149785.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Genome Analysis Laboratory, National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia.
² Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
³ Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of the smallest known free-living insect Scydosella musawasensis (Polilov, 2015) is published in this paper. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is 14 719 base pairs (bp) in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes and 21 tRNA genes. The overall base composition of the genome in descending order was 40.59% - A, 13.85% - C, 36.82% - T and 8.73% - G, with a significant AT bias of 77.41%.

Keywords: Coleoptera; Ptiliidae; Scydosella musawasensis; mitochondrial genome; next-generation sequencing.