Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Anoplocephala magna Solidifying the Species.
10.3347/kjp.2016.54.3.369
- Author:
Aijiang GUO
1
Author Information
1. State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China. guoaijiang@caas.cn
- Publication Type:Brief Communication
- Keywords:
Anoplocephala magna;
Anoplocephala perfoliata;
mitochondrial genome
- MeSH:
Amino Acid Sequence;
Cestoda;
Genome;
Genome, Mitochondrial*;
Parasites;
RNA, Transfer
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
2016;54(3):369-373
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
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Abstract:
The 2 species of the genus Anoplocephala (Anoplocephalidae), A. perfoliata and A. magna, are among the most important equine cestode parasites. However, there is little information about their differences at the molecular level. The present study revealed that the mitochondrial (mt) genome of A. magna was 13,759 bp in size and 700 bp shorter than that of A. perfoliata. The 2 species includes 2 rRNA, 22 tRNA, and 12 protein-coding genes each. The size of each of the 36 genes was the same as that of A. perfoliata, except for cox1, rrnL, trnC, trnS2(UCN), trnG, trnH, trnQ, and trnP. In the full mitochondrial genome, the sequence similarity was 87.1%. The divergence in the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of individual protein-coding genes ranged from 11.1% to 16% and 6.8% to 16.4%, respectively. The 2 noncoding regions of the mt genome of A. magna were 199 bp and 271 bp in length, while the equivalent regions in A. perfoliata were 875 bp and 276 bp, respectively. The results of this study support the proposal that A. magna and A. perfoliata are separate species, consistent with previous morphological analyses.
