title: The complete mitochondrial genome of Cupido argiades (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
abstract: The complete mitogenome of Cupido argiades (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) was determined in this study. The genome is 15,330 bp long, presenting a typical gene organization and order for completely sequenced lepidopoteran mitogenomes. All protein-coding genes (PCGs) are initiated by ATN codons, except for cox1, which uses CGA as its start codon. Some PCGs harbor TAG (nad3) or incomplete termination codon T (cox1, cox2, nad5), while others use standard canonical TAA as their termination codons. Furthermore, the largest noncoding A+T-rich region with the length of 450 bp contains two microsatellite-like repeats of (TA)9 and a conserved motif ATAGA followed by a 19-bp poly-T stretch.
authors: College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University , Wuhu 241000 , China.
authors: Lanlan
authors: L
authors: Zhang
authors: Dunyuan
authors: D
authors: Huang
authors: Xiaoyan
authors: X
authors: Sun
authors: Jiasheng
authors: J
authors: Hao
authors: Juanjuan
authors: J
authors: Hao
authors: Chaomin
authors: C
authors: Peng
authors: Qun
authors: Q
authors: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer