title: Molecular genetic relationships between Bombycidae and Saturniidae based on the mitochondria DNA encoding of large and small rRNA.
abstract: The phylogenetic relationships between Bombycidae (Bombyx mori and Bombyx mandarina) and Saturniidae (Antheraea yamamai and Antheraea pernyi) were investigated based on large and small mitochondiral rRNA genes. About 430 bp of four kinds of PCR-amplified fragments were sequenced and aligned. For the 16S rRNA gene, B. mori shared a 98, 87 and 86% sequence homology with B. mandarina, A. yamamai and A. pernyi, and for the 12S rRNA gene, B. mori shared a 99, 89 and 88% sequence homology with B. mandarina, A. yamamai and A. pernyi, respectively. DNA sequence data were also used for a phylogenetic analysis. All of the trees showed monophyly for both Bombycidae and Saturniidae. The monophyly confidence limits of these trees were estimated using bootstrapping tests and measured more than 99% for all trees for both Bombycidae and Saturniidae.
authors.affiliation: National Sericulture and Entomology Research, R.D.A., Suwon, South Korea.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Goo
authors.forename: E Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Sohn
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: O Y
authors.initials: OY
authors.lastname: Kwon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D012831:Bombyx / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009036:Moths / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; C075526:RNA, ribosomal, 12S