CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES ›› 2022, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 677-681.doi: 10.12140/j.issn.1000-7423.2022.05.018

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Rhipicephalus microplus

LIU Ya-fang1(), CHEN Bin1, LU Xin-yan1, LI Guang-hua1, DU Chun-hong2, JIANG Dan-dan3, YANG Xing1,*()   

  1. 1. School of Basic Medicine, Dali University, Dali 671000, China
    2. Yunnan Institute for Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Dali 671000, China
    3. School of Public Health, Dali University, Dali 671000, China
  • Received:2022-01-24 Revised:2022-04-09 Online:2022-10-30 Published:2022-08-02
  • Contact: YANG Xing E-mail:fangzai_05@sina.com;yang08220013@163.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(81760607);National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2002219);Yunnan Natural Science Foundation(2017FD139);Scientific Research Fund of Yunnan Education Department(2022J0687)

Abstract:

Rhipicephalus microplus was collected by the cloth flag method in Yunnan Province in September 2017 and was used for DNA extraction. Four long fragments were amplified by long PCR using the primers designed based on 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA, nad1 and cox3 gene sequences. The fragments were sequenced by conserved primer-walking. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence was obtained by splicing. The length of the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of Rhipicephalus microplus is 14 763 bp. It contained 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes and a non-coding control region of 264 bp (D-Loop region). The base composition was A 38.66%, G 9.02%, C 11.46%, T 40.87%. A + T content was 79.53%. The starting codon of protein-coding genes was ATN. The stop codons were TAA or TAG, except for cox2, cox3, nad5, which used incomplete T as the stop codon. The complete mitochondrial genome have 12 gene overlaps. The length ranges from 1-24 bp. The length of 18 total intergenic regions was 433 bp ranging from 1-311 bp. A total of 22 transferring RNA were found, all of which were typical cloverleaf structures except for tRNACys, tRNAPhe, tRNASer.

Key words: Rhipicephalus microplus, Mitochondrial genome, Sequence analysis

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