PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Deepika Singh
AU  - Debajyoti Kabiraj
AU  - Hasnahana Chetia
AU  - Pragya Sharma
AU  - Kartik Neog
AU  - Utpal Bora
TI  - Complete mitochondrial genome of golden silk producer <em>Antheraea assamensis</em> and its comparative analysis with other lepidopteran insects
AID  - 10.1101/110031
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 110031
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/20/110031.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/20/110031.full
AB  - Muga (Antheraea assamensis) is an economically important silkmoth endemic to North-eastern part of India and is the producer of the strongest known commercial silk. However, there is a scarcity of -omics data for understanding the organism at a molecular level. Our present study decodes the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of A. assamensis and presents comparative analysis with other lepidopterans. Mitogenome is a 15,272 bp long AT rich (~80.2%) molecule containing 37 genes (13 PCGs, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs) and a 328 bp long control region. The overall mitogenome arrangement was similar to the other lepidopterans. Two PCGs cox1 and cox2 were found to have CGA and GTG as start codons respectively like some lepidopterans. Typical clover-leaf shaped secondary structures of tRNAs were found with a few exceptions such as unstable DHU and TΨC loop in tRNASer1 and tRNATyr; significant number of mismatches (35) spread over 19 tRNAs. The control region contained a six bp deletion atypical of other Antheraea species. Phylogenetic position was consistent with the traditional taxonomic classification of Saturniidae. The complete annotated mitogenome is available in GenBank (Accession No. KU379695). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on complete mitogenome of A. assamensis.