Complete mitochondrial genome of the stingless bee Lepidotrigona terminata (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) and phylogenetic analysis

Cheng-Ye Wang; Min Zhao; Huan-Li Xu; Feng-Long Zhang; Yi-Hai Zhong; Ying Feng; Shi-Jie Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1715298

Complete mitochondrial genome of the stingless bee Lepidotrigona terminata (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 21;5(1):752-753. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1715298.

Authors

Cheng-Ye Wang¹, Min Zhao¹, Huan-Li Xu², Feng-Long Zhang³, Yi-Hai Zhong⁴, Ying Feng¹, Shi-Jie Wang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming, China.
² Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
³ Yunnan Fenghong Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Kunming, China.
⁴ Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China.

Abstract

Lepidotrigona terminata (Smith, 1878) is a stingless bee that distributed in Eastern Asia. The complete mitogenome of L. terminata (GenBank accession number MN737481) is 15,431 bp in size, including 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs genes, and a noncoding D-loop region. The D-loop region is located between ND4L and tRNA^Met, different from the other two stingless bee mitogenomes previously reported. The base composition of the whole L. terminata mitogenome is 38.18% for A, 11.67% for G, 38.32% for T, and 11.83% for C, with a high AT bias of 76.50%. The present data could contribute to a detailed phylogeographic analysis of this valuable economic insect for further study in differentiating closely related species.

Keywords: Lepidotrigona terminata; Mitogenome; phylogeny; stingless bee.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China [31402145] and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Public Research Institutions [riricaf2014002Z].