Characterization of the leafhopper mitogenome of Mileewa alara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Hongli He; Maofa Yang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1906180

Characterization of the leafhopper mitogenome of Mileewa alara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Mar 28;6(3):1265-1266. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1906180.

Authors

Hongli He^{1

2}, Maofa Yang^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ College of Agricultural Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
² Institute of Entomology, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of the Mountainous Region, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
³ College of Tobacco Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.

Abstract

The mitogenome data of leafhopper species Mileewa alara was assembled and annotated in this study. The results shows that length of M. alara is 16020 bp, consist of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and one control region. The A + T content in the mitogenome was 77.9%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 13 PCGs of four Mileewa species and other 29 Cicadellidae species, each subfamily species well separated. And M. alara clustered with M. ponta. This study also raised mitogenome of Mileewa number in GenBank to four.

Keywords: Mileewa alara; Mileewini; mitochondrion; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31672335]; the Program of Excellent Innovation Talents, Guizhou Province, China ([2016]-4022); and International Cooperation Base for Insect Evolutionary Biology and Pest Control ([2016]-5802).