Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Saturnia japonica

Mitogenomics and phylogenetics of twelve species of African Saturniidae (Lepidoptera)

“…Average sequence coverage varied between 197× ( H. smilax ) and 1810× ( H. dyops ) ( Table 2 ). The total length of the new mitogenomes ranged from 15,218 bp ( V. ducalis ) to 15,363 bp ( N. cytherea ), in line with those of other Saturniidae ( Kim et al., 2017a ; Kim et al., 2017b ; Langley et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2021 ; Chen et al, 2021 ). All mitogenomes generated in this study are identical in gene content and organization and include the 13 PCGs, two rRNA genes and 22 tRNA genes typical of Metazoa.…”

“…The tree also supported a sister relationship between Attacini and Saturniini, the African tribes Bunaeini, Urotini and Micragonini together forming a monophylum and the sister group of Attacini+Saturniini, with Urotini again paraphyletic in regard to Bunaeini. In addition to phylogeny estimates based on nuclear genes and phylomorphology, the relationships among Saturniidae have been reconstructed using mitogenomic data ( Sima et al, 2013 ; Kim et al, 2018 ; He, Wang & Chen, 2017 ; Zhong et al, 2017 ; Langley et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ; Liu et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2021 ; Zhao et al, 2021 ). Although these studies focused on Asian species in the tribes Attacini and Saturniini, reciprocal monophyly and sister relationships were largely consistent, except for the positions of Cricula trifenestrata and Neoris haraldi , which were not consistently recovered, likely due to low sequence quality.…”

“…The pupal cocoons of several Asian saturniids are used for silk production, e.g. , Antheraea assamensis , Antheraea pernyi , Eriogyna pyretorum , Saturnia japonica and Samia cynthia ricini ( Jiang et al, 2009 ; Kim et al, 2012 ; Singh et al, 2017 ; Kim et al, 2018 ; Liu et al, 2021 ). Sericulture is not generally practiced in Africa and the potential of African silk-producing species such as Argema mimosae (Saturniini) and Epiphora bauhiniae (Attacini) is largely untapped, although traditional uses are documented ( Peigler & Oberprieler, 2017 ).…”

“…Mitogenomes are widely used for phylogenetic reconstruction in insects, and deeper taxonomic coverage and recent methodological developments have allowed for improved recovery of relationships among taxa, even those affected by compositional heterogeneity and accelerated evolutionary rates ( Song et al, 2016 ). Mitochondrial phylogeny estimates of Saturniidae have mostly been limited to Asian species ( Jiang et al, 2009 ; Zhang, Zhao & Zhou, 2016 ; Kim et al., 2017a ; Kim et al., 2017b ; Li et al, 2017 ; Saikia, Nath & Devi, 2019 ; Kim et al., 2009 ; Liu et al, 2021 ), and only two African species in the tribe Bunaeini ( G. belina and Gy. maja ) were recently included ( Langley et al, 2020 ), representing approximately 1% of the total species recorded in Africa and 4% of all saturniid mitogenomes publicly available.…”

Unfolding the mitochondrial genome structure of green semilooper (Chrysodeixis acuta Walker): An emerging pest of onion (Allium cepa L.)

“…[ 69 ] and Liu et al . [ 70 ] have also reported the ATAGA motif in the control region followed by the Poly-T stretch and microsatellite A/T repeats elements along with Poly-A stretch at the end of the control region.…”