Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Aug 2021)

The complete mitochondrial genome of the strawberry aphid Chaetosiphon fragaefolii Cockerell, 1901 (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from California, USA

  • Miguel Acosta,
  • Diana Alcantar,
  • Ivan Alier-Reyes,
  • Carlos Alvarez,
  • Crystal B. Arroyo,
  • David Calderon,
  • David Cardenas,
  • Alejandro R. Castro,
  • Janelle K. Companion,
  • Cristian Constante,
  • Evelyn S. Diaz Telles,
  • Gabriel Fletes,
  • Fatima C. Gama,
  • Celia Garcia Perez,
  • Abigail Garcia,
  • Bailey Garcia,
  • Brandon S. Gutierrez,
  • Karina L. Guzman,
  • Cecilia Hernandez,
  • Jeffery R. Hughey,
  • Monica Ibarra Flores,
  • Adilene I. Jacobo,
  • Brianna Lopez,
  • Norma C. Lopez-De Leon,
  • Jaden D. Martinez,
  • Nayelli Mendoza,
  • Kimberly Perez,
  • Lucio J. Perez,
  • Milagros Perez-Moreno,
  • Caitlin D. Pineda,
  • Elizabeth Pinedo,
  • Julissa G. Portillo,
  • Anais Rico,
  • Laura V. Ruiz,
  • Genevie M. Serrano,
  • Kalia M. Sheldon,
  • Hiroki Terada,
  • Victoria A. Trujillo,
  • Clarissa Vazquez-Ramos,
  • Frank Wang,
  • Dawn Flora,
  • Felipe G. Zavala,
  • Hartnell College Genomics Group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1915206
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 8
pp. 2373 – 2375

Abstract

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The aphid Chaetosiphon fragaefolii Cockerell, 1901 is an agricultural pest and known vector of strawberry viruses. To better understand its biology and systematics, we performed a genomic analysis on C. fragaefolii collected from Quinalt strawberry plants from Pacific Grove, Monterey county, California, USA using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing. The resulting data were used to assemble the aphids complete mitogenome. The mitogenome of C. fragaefolii is 16,108 bp in length and contains 2 rRNA, 13 protein-coding, and 22 tRNA genes (GenBank accession number LC590896). The mitogenome is similar in content and organization to other Aphididae. Phylogenetic analysis of the C. fragaefolii mitogenome resolved it in a fully supported clade in the tribe Macrosiphini. Analysis of the cox1 barcode sequence of C. fragaefolii from California found exact and nearly identical sequences to C. fragaefolii and Chaetosiphon thomasi Hille Ris Lambers, 1953, suggesting the two species are conspecific.

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