1. Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis
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Yi-Jing Ren, Hong-Xiang Zheng, Ruixiang Zhang, Fu-Nan He, Jian Li, and Wei Hu
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Genetics ,Pentastomida ,Mitochondrial DNA ,Phylogenetic tree ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Sister group ,Evolutionary biology ,Phylogenetics ,Parasitology ,Gene ,Armillifer armillatus - Abstract
Armillifer agkistrodontis (Ichthyostraca: Pantastomida) is a parasitic pathogen, only reported in China, which can cause a zoonotic disease, pentastomiasis. A complete mitochondrial (mt) genome was 16,521 bp comprising 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 1 non-coding region (NCR). A phylogenetic tree drawn with the concatenated amino acid sequences of the 6 conserved PCGs (atp6, cox1-3, and nad2) showed that A. agkistrodontis and Armillifer armillatus constituted a clade Pentastomida which was a sister group of the Branchiura. The complete mt genome sequence of A. agkistrodontis provides important genetic markers for both phylogenetic and epidemiological studies of pentastomids.
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- 2016
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