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Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis

  • Li, Jian (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University) ;
  • He, Fu-Nan (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University) ;
  • Zheng, Hong-Xiang (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University) ;
  • Zhang, Rui-Xiang (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University) ;
  • Ren, Yi-Jing (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University) ;
  • Hu, Wei (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University)
  • Received : 2016.10.10
  • Accepted : 2016.11.29
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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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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