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http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.6.813

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)
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases / v.54, no.6, 2016 , pp. 813-817 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Armillifer agkistrodontis; mitochondrial genome; pentastomid; pentastome; phylogenetics;
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