Korean J Parasitol.  2016 Dec;54(6):813-817. 10.3347/kjp.2016.54.6.813.

Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis

Affiliations
  • 1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. huw@fudan.edu.cn
  • 2College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530005, China.
  • 3National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China.

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.

Keyword

Armillifer agkistrodontis; mitochondrial genome; pentastomid; pentastome; phylogenetics

MeSH Terms

Amino Acid Sequence
China
Epidemiologic Studies
Genes, rRNA
Genetic Markers
Genome
Genome, Mitochondrial*
Humans
Pentastomida*
RNA, Transfer
Siblings
Tongue*
Trees
Zoonoses
Genetic Markers
RNA, Transfer
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