Abstract
The living-fossil sawfly Macroxyela ferruginea (Xyelidae: Macroxyelinae) was one of the oldest species of Hymenoptera. We sequenced the mitochondrial genome, 15,465 bp in size. All 37 typical mitochondrial genes were possessed. There is only one rearrangement of gene order, where trnM and trnQ were shuffled. We also found this order was shared with Xyela sp., which also belongs to family Xyelidae. The 13 protein-coding genes of this sequence and the other 10 species from eight superfamilies in Hymenoptera were all used for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood (ML) analysis and Bayesian inference (BI), with Ascaloptynx appendiculatus from Neuroptera as an outgroup. The topology demonstrated that M. ferruginea was sister to Xyela sp., supporting that they belong to one family Xyelidae.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1694849
Funding Information
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFD0201000], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31401996, 31702035], and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019FZA6012].
Repository Citation
Zheng, Bo-Ying; Li, Ze-Kai; Li, Xiao-Fei; Zhu, Jia-Chen; Sharkey, Michael J.; Tang, Pu; and Chen, Xue-Xin, "The First Mitochondrial Genome of the Living-Fossil Sawfly Macroxyela ferruginea (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae, Macroxyelinae)" (2020). Entomology Faculty Publications. 207.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_facpub/207
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, v. 5, no. 1.
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