title: The complete mitogenome of the Cydno Longwing Heliconius cydno (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
abstract: The complete mitogenome of the Cydno Longwing Heliconius cydno has been reconstructed from the whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. The circular genome is 15,367 bp in length, and consists of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), 2 ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and 1 D-loop region. PCGs are mostly initiated with the ATN codons (COII, COIII, Cytb, ND2, ND3, ND4, ND4L, ND5, ND6, ATP6 & ATP8), except for the ND1 and COI genes with TTG and the unusual CGA as their initiation codons, respectively. Some PCGs harbor TAG (ND3) or incomplete termination codon T (COI, COII & ND4), while all the others use TAA as their termination codons. The nucleotide composition is highly asymmetric (39.3% A, 42.1% T, 7.6% G, 11.0% C) with an overall GC content of 18.6%.
authors.affiliation: a College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University , Xi'an , Shaanxi , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zeng-Qiang
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Qian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D002080:Butterflies / Q000235:genetics*; D059646:Genome Size; D049750:Genome, Insect; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods
keywords: Butterfly; GenBank; Illumina sequencing; MITObim; mitochondrial genome