title: Complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic dragonfly, Epiophlebia superstes (Odonata, Epiophlebiidae).
abstract: This study reported the 15,435 bp-long complete mitochondrial genome of the relict Epiophlebia superstes (Odonata, Epiophlebiidae), an enigmatic dragonfly of the paraphyletic 'Anisozygoptera' possessing characteristics similar to members of both extant odonate suborders, the Zygoptera and the Anisoptera. This mitogenome comprises the common set of 37 genes and an A + T-rich control region, and has a gene arrangement identical to those of all available odonates. The genome contains three non-coding inter-genic spacers (s1-s3), which occurs in all of other known odonates, but it lacks the inter-genic spacer s5 typically found in the Anisoptera. This result suggests that E. superstes possesses a mitogenmic organization more closely related to that of the Zygoptera than that of the Anizoptera.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Life Science & Center for Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity , Tunghai University , Taichung , Taiwan .|b Department of Life Science , National Taiwan Normal University , Taipei , Taiwan .
authors.forename: Jo-Fan
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Life Science & Center for Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity , Tunghai University , Taichung , Taiwan .
authors.forename: Ming-Yu
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: c Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica , Taipei , Taiwan .
authors.forename: Shu-Miaw
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Chaw
authors.affiliation: d Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University , Aobayama , Sendai , Japan .
authors.forename: Yuta
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morii
authors.affiliation: e Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute , Fushimi , Kyoto , Japan , and.
authors.forename: Mayumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.affiliation: f Department of Zoology , Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Sakyo , Kyoto , Japan.
authors.forename: Teiji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sota
authors.affiliation: a Department of Life Science & Center for Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity , Tunghai University , Taichung , Taiwan .|b Department of Life Science , National Taiwan Normal University , Taipei , Taiwan .
authors.forename: Chung-Ping
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D023061:Gene Order; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D063191:Odonata / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
keywords: Anisoptera; Anisozygoptera; Zygoptera; inter-genic spacer; living fossil; synapomorphy