Mitochondrial Genomes from Fungal the Entomopathogenic Moelleriella Genus Reveals Evolutionary History, Intron Dynamics and Phylogeny.

ABSTRACT: Members of the genus Moelleriella (Hypocreales, Clavicipitaceae) are insect pathogens with specificity for scale insects and whiteflies. However, no mitochondrial genomes are available for these fungi. Here, we assembled seven mitogenomes from M. zhongdongii, M. libera, M. raciborskii, M. gracilispora, M. oxystoma, Moelleriella sp. CGMCC 3.18909, and Moelleriella sp. CGMCC 3.18913, which varied in size from 40.8 to 95.7 Kb. Synteny and codon usage bias was relatively conserved, with the mitochondrial gene arrangement being completely homologous to the gene order of 21 other species within the Hypocreales. Nevertheless, significant intron polymorphism was observed between Moelleriella species. Evolutionary analyses revealed that

SUBMITTER: Xiong C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11856489 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature