Complete mitochondrial genome of the common silverfish Lepisma saccharina (Insecta: Zygentoma: Lepismatidae)

Abstract

The common silverfish, Lepisma saccharina, is a well-known stored-product insect worldwide, which were obtained from China. The complete mitochondrial genome (GenBank: MT108230) consists of a circular DNA molecule of 15,244 bp with A/T bias of 66.46% AT content, which is longer by 92 bp than the complete mitogenome of Thermobia domestica (GenBank: AY639935.1). It comprises 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, and 2 rDNA genes. The protein-coding genes have typical ATN (Met) initiation codons except for cox1 for TTG and nad5 for GTG, and are terminated by typical TAN stop codons.

Keywords

• lepisma saccharina
• common silverfish
• zygentoma
• lepismatidae
• mitochondrial genome