Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis.
10.3347/kjp.2016.54.6.813
- Author:
Jian LI
1
;
Fu Nan HE
;
Hong Xiang ZHENG
;
Rui Xiang ZHANG
;
Yi Jing REN
;
Wei HU
Author Information
1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. huw@fudan.edu.cn
- Publication Type:Brief Communication
- Keywords:
Armillifer agkistrodontis;
mitochondrial genome;
pentastomid;
pentastome;
phylogenetics
- MeSH:
Amino Acid Sequence;
China;
Epidemiologic Studies;
Genes, rRNA;
Genetic Markers;
Genome;
Genome, Mitochondrial*;
Humans;
Pentastomida*;
RNA, Transfer;
Siblings;
Tongue*;
Trees;
Zoonoses
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
2016;54(6):813-817
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Armillifer agkistrodontis (Ichthyostraca: Pantastomida) is a parasitic pathogen, only reported in China, which can cause a zoonotic disease, pentastomiasis. A complete mitochondrial (mt) genome was 16,521 bp comprising 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 1 non-coding region (NCR). A phylogenetic tree drawn with the concatenated amino acid sequences of the 6 conserved PCGs (atp6, cox1-3, and nad2) showed that A. agkistrodontis and Armillifer armillatus constituted a clade Pentastomida which was a sister group of the Branchiura. The complete mt genome sequence of A. agkistrodontis provides important genetic markers for both phylogenetic and epidemiological studies of pentastomids.
