The complete mitogenome of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Jun Duan; Guoxing Quan; Omprakash Mittapalli; Michel Cusson; Peter J Krell; Daniel Doucet

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1292476

The complete mitogenome of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Feb 23;2(1):134-135. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1292476.

Authors

Jun Duan^{1

2}, Guoxing Quan¹, Omprakash Mittapalli³, Michel Cusson⁴, Peter J Krell², Daniel Doucet¹

Affiliations

¹ Natural Resources Canada, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada.
² Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
³ Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA.
⁴ Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Québec City, Canada.

Abstract

The complete mitogenome of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB, Agrilus planipennis) was obtained by gleaning mitochondrial sequences from whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. The circular genome has 15,942 base pairs and contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), 2 ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and an A-T-rich region. All PCGs begin with ATN codons. The nucleotide composition is highly asymmetric (31.65% A, 40.25% T, 17.39% G, 10.71% C), with an overall A-T content of 71.9%. Phylogenetic analysis based on insect mitogenomes indicated that EAB is closely related to other Buprestoidea species, clustering most closely with Chrysochroa fulgidissima.

Keywords: EAB; alien invasive pest; jewel beetle; mitochondrial genome.