The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail Metisotoma macnamarai from northeast China

Zhijng Xie; Haifeng Yao; Mikhail Potapov; Jie Dong; Donghui Wu; Stefan Scheu; Xin Sun

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1704660

The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail Metisotoma macnamarai from northeast China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 10;5(1):506-508. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1704660.

Authors

Zhijng Xie^{1

2

3}, Haifeng Yao^{1

2}, Mikhail Potapov^{4

5}, Jie Dong^{1

6}, Donghui Wu^{1

2}, Stefan Scheu³, Xin Sun^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Animal Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany.
⁵ Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia.
⁶ College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

The complete mitogenome of Metisotoma macnamarai (Folsom 1918) (Collembola, Isotomidae), a member of obligatory predaceous genus Metisotoma Maynard, 1951, was sequenced. It has a length of 15,177 bp, comprising 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, and 2 rRNAs. The mitogenome has the following base composition: A = 37.1%, T = 33.3%, G = 11.8%, and C = 17.4%. Phylogenetic analysis using maximum likelihood (ML) indicates that M. macnamarai clusters as sister taxon to the genus Isotomurus, with high statistical support.

Keywords: Collembola; Holarctic; Isotomidae; mt genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

The study was supported by funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China [41811530086, 41571052, 31861133006, 41811530279], National Science and Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of China [2018FY100300], Chinese–Russia Research Cooperative Program of RFBR [No. 18-54-53032 GFEN], the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [2016-2018], the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences [2018-2019] and the UCAS Joint PhD Training Program [2018-2019].