Higher tRNA gene duplication in mitogenomes of praying mantises (Dictyoptera, Mantodea) and the phylogeny within Mantodea

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome sequence ofAsiadodis yunnanensis (Mantidae: Choeradodinae) and phylogenetic analysis

“…The AT-skew and GC-skew of this genome were 0.049 and À0.223, respectively. The gene organization of A. yunnanensis is similar to that observed in other praying mantises (Ye et al 2016;Zhang et al 2018). Twenty-one genes were encoded on the major strand (J-strand), whereas the others were encoded on the minor strand (N-strand).…”

The complete mitochondrial genome of Mantis religiosa (Mantodea: Mantidae) from Canada and its phylogeny

“…Total genomic DNA was extracted from leg muscle using an Ezup Column Animal Genomic DNA Purification Kit (Sangon Biotech Company, Shanghai, China) and stored in the Zhang laboratory. A set of modified universal primers (Zhang et al 2008;Zhang, Yu, et al 2018) were designed for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. All PCR products were sequenced in both directions by the Sangon Biotech Company (Shanghai, China).…”

“…To select conserved regions of the putative nucleotide sequences, each alignment was analyzed with Gblocks 0.91 b (Castresana 2000) using default settings. BI and ML trees were constructed using the 13 protein-coding genes of 21 species, which included 18 Mantidae species (Cameron et al 2006;Song et al 2016;Ye et al 2016;Tian et al 2017;Zhang and Ye 2017;Zhang, Yu et al 2018;Zhang et al 2018aZhang et al , 2018b and three Blattaria species as the outgroups (Cameron and Whiting 2007;Dietrich and Brune 2016).…”

Peer Review #1 of "Characteristics of the complete mitochondrial genome of Suhpalacsa longialata (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) and its phylogenetic implications (v0.1)"

“…We downloaded the data from previously sequenced species of Neuroptera as ingroups including S. longialata (Beckenbach & Stewart, 2008;Cameron et al, 2009;Cheng et al, 2014;Cheng et al, 2015;Haruyama et al, 2011;He et al, 2012;Jiang et al, 2017;Lan et al, 2016;Negrisolo, Babbucci & Patarnello, 2011;Wang et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2017;Yan et al, 2014;Zhao et al, 2016;Zhang & Wang, 2016;Zhang & Yang, 2017;Zhao et al, 2013) Manuscript to be reviewed genomes are listed in Table S2. Nucleotide sequences of the 13 PCGs were employed for construction of BI and ML phylogenetic trees according to Cheng et al 2016and Zhang et al (2018). DNA alignment was acquired from the amino acid alignment of the PCGs using Clustal W in Mega 7.0 (Kumar, Stecher & Tamura, 2016), and the conserved regions were found by Gblock 0.91b (Castresana, 2000).…”

“…Additionally, we also analyzed evolutionary relationships within Neuroptera using Megaloptera as outgroups to discuss the relationship between Ascalaphidae and Myrmeleontidae, and the relationships of inter-families of Neuroptera. Manuscript to be reviewed PCR amplification and sequencing of S. longialata mtDNA Twelve universal primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification were modified according to Simon et al (2006), and Zhang et al (2018) (Table S1 and Fig.1) based on the mitogenome sequences of the three known species of Ascalaphidae (L. macaronius, Ascaloptynx appendiculatus and Ascalohybris subjacens). Then five specific primers (Table S1 and Fig.1…”