Abstract

The coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera coffeella) is one of the major pests of coffee crops in the neotropical regions, and causes major economic losses. Few molecular data are available to identify this pest and advances in the knowledge of the genome of L. coffeella will contribute to improving pest identification and also clarify taxonomy of this microlepidoptera. L. coffeella DNA was extracted and sequenced using PacBio HiFi technology. Here we report the complete L. coffeella circular mitochondrial genome (16,407 bp) assembled using Aladin software. We found a total of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), 2 ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs) and an A + T rich-region and a D-loop. The L. coffeella mitochondrial gene organization is highly conserved with similarities to lepidopteran mitochondrial gene rearrangements (trnM-trnI-trnQ). We concatenated the 13 PCG to construct a phylogenetic tree and inferred the relationship between L. coffeella and other lepidopteran species. L. coffeella is found in the Lyonetiidae clade together with L. malifoliella and Lyonetia clerkella, both leaf miners. Interestingly, this clade is assigned in the Yponomeutoidea superfamily together with Gracillariidae, and both superfamilies displayed species with leaf-mining feeding habits.

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Title
The complete mitochondrial genome of Leucoptera coffeella (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) and phylogenetic relationships within the Yponomeutoidea superfamily
Author
Pereira dos Santos, Mateus 1 ; Zotta Mota, Ana Paula 2 ; Coiti Togawa, Roberto 3 ; Florencio Martins, Natalia 4 ; Fabricio de Melo Bellard do Nascimento, Eliza 3 ; Lucena, Vivian Santos 3 ; Castellani, Maria Aparecida 5 ; Saliba Albuquerque, Erika Valéria 6 ; Hilliou, Frédérique 2 

 State University of Southwestern Bahia, Department of Crop Science and Animal Science, Vitória da Conquista, Brazil (GRID:grid.412333.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2192 9570); Université Côte D’Azur, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, Sophia Antipolis, France (GRID:grid.435437.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0385 8766) 
 Université Côte D’Azur, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, Sophia Antipolis, France (GRID:grid.435437.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0385 8766) 
 Embrapa Genetic Resources & Biotechnology, Brasília, Brazil (GRID:grid.435437.2) 
 EMBRAPA Agroindústrial Tropical, Fortaleza, Brazil (GRID:grid.435437.2) 
 State University of Southwestern Bahia, Department of Crop Science and Animal Science, Vitória da Conquista, Brazil (GRID:grid.412333.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2192 9570) 
 Embrapa Genetic Resources & Biotechnology, Brasília, Brazil (GRID:grid.412333.4) 
Pages
7119
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2986723706
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.