The mitochondrial genome of a giant water bug Lethocerus deyrollei (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) from South Korea.

ABSTRACT: A giant water bug Lethocerus deyrollei (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) is a large, predatory, and nocturnal hemipteran insect, which has been considered threatened and thus enrolled as an endangered species in South Korea and Japan. Here, we characterized the complete mitochondrial genome of L. deyrollei, which has a circular form with 19,295 bp in length, which is the longest when compared to those of the 111 hemipteran species reported so far. Its longest genome size is due to the extremely extended CR (4686 bp), which is much longer than those of China and Japan. It consisted of a total of 37 genes (13 PCGs, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes) and one control region (CR). The genome composition and gene order were identical to those previously reported from the same species of

SUBMITTER: Choi EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7995861 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature