Fifteen new earthworm mitogenomes shed new light on phylogeny within the Pheretima complex.

ABSTRACT: The Pheretima complex within the Megascolecidae family is a major earthworm group. Recently, the systematic status of the Pheretima complex based on morphology was challenged by molecular studies. In this study, we carry out the first comparative mitogenomic study in oligochaetes. The mitogenomes of 15 earthworm species were sequenced and compared with other 9 available earthworm mitogenomes, with the main aim to explore their phylogenetic relationships and test different analytical approaches on phylogeny reconstruction. The general earthworm mitogenomic features revealed to be conservative: all genes encoded on the same strand, all the protein coding loci shared the same initiation codon (ATG), and tRNA genes showed conserved structures. The Drawida japonica mitogenome displayed the high

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735579 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature