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. 2020 Sep 3;5(3):3298-3300.
doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1814885.

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Jackson's leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Mackenzie R Alexiuk  1 , Jeffrey M Marcus  1 , Melanie M L Lalonde  1
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Jackson's leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Mackenzie R Alexiuk et al. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. .

Abstract

The Jackson's leaf butterfly Mallika jacksoni (Sharpe 1896), is a leaf-mimicking species from tropical East Africa. Genome skimming by Illumina sequencing permitted the assembly of the complete circular M. jacksoni 15,183 bp mitogenome. It consists of 79.4% AT nucleotides, 22 tRNAs, 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs, and a control region in the typical butterfly gene order. Mallika jacksoni COX1 has a CGA start codon while ATP6, COX1, COX2, ND3, ND4, and ND5 exhibit partial stop codons completed by 3'-A residues added to the mRNA. Phylogenetic reconstruction places M. jacksoni as sister to Kallima within nymphalid tribe Kallimini.

Keywords: Illumina sequencing; Kallimini; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; mitogenomics.

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Figure 1.
Maximum likelihood phylogeny (GTR + G model, G = 0.2250, likelihood score 109202.82577) of Mallika jacksoni and 39 additional mitogenomes from nymphalid subfamily Nymphalinae based on 1 million random addition heuristic search replicates (with tree bisection and reconnection). One million maximum parsimony heuristic search replicates produced eight trees (parsimony score 18,599 steps) which differ from one another only by the arrangement of Junonia coenia mitogenomes and one of which has an identical tree topology to the maximum likelihood tree depicted here. Numbers above each node are maximum likelihood bootstrap values and numbers below each node are maximum parsimony bootstrap values (each from 1 million random fast addition search replicates).
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