title: The mitochondrial genome of Prays oleae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Praydidae).
abstract: Prays oleae is one of the most important olive tree pests and a species of interest in evolutionary studies, as it belongs to one of the oldest extant superfamilies of Ditrysian Lepidoptera. We determined its mitogenome sequence, and found it has common features for Lepidoptera, e.g. an >80% A + T content, an apparent CGA start codon for COX1 and an ATAGA(T)n motif in the control region, which also contains several copies of a 163-164 bp repeat. Importantly, the mitogenome displays the Met-Ile-Gln tRNA gene order typical of Ditrysia, consistent with the hypothesis that this is a synapomorphy of that clade.
authors.affiliation: a Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP) , Porto , Portugal .
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: van Asch
authors.affiliation: b Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Protection of the Olive Tree , Olive Tree Institute, Sousse Station , Sousse , Tunisia , and.
authors.forename: Imen
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Blibech
authors.affiliation: a Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP) , Porto , Portugal .
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pereira-Castro
authors.affiliation: c Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal.
authors.forename: Fernando Trindade
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Rei
authors.affiliation: c Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal.
authors.forename: Luís Teixeira
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: da Costa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D020029:Base Pairing / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Genetics; Prays oleae; mitochondrial genome; olive moth