The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Scorpion Centruroides vittatus (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-20-2017

Department

Biological Sciences

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the Striped scorpion (Centruroides vittatus) was assembled from Illumina-based whole genome sequencing. The circular genome is 14,602 bp in length with 13 protein coding genes, 21 tRNA, two rRNAs, a translocation-inversion of tRNALeu compared to the horse shoe crab mitogenome, and the absence of tRNAAsp. The A + T content of the mitogenome is 68.1%. Our Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses placed the C. vittatus mitogenome as a sister group of C. limpidus and nestled within the new world Buthids.

DOI

10.1080/23802359.2017.1407685

First Page

841

Last Page

842

Publication Title

Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources

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