title: Mitochondrial genome of Ogmocotyle sikae and implications for phylogenetic studies of the Notocotylidae trematodes.
abstract: Ogmocotyle spp. (Trematoda: Digenea: Notocotylidae) are neglected but important trematodes that can infect numerous mammal species, causing significant economic losses to livestock industries. However, there have been few studies on the molecular ecology of these trematodes. We amplified and sequenced the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of Ogmocotyle sikae (14,307 bp). The gene content and gene arrangement of O. sikae mt genome was similar to that of Dicrocoelium chinensis, except that trnE and trnG were reversed. Phylogenetic analysis of O. sikae and selected parasites using Bayesian inference was performed based on concatenated amino acid sequence datasets conceptually translated from the 12 protein-coding genes. The results indicated that the family Notocotylidae is related to the family Paramphistomatidae. Our description of O. sikae mt genome provides a significant resource of molecular markers for future comparative studies of the Notocotylidae and other trematodes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730046, PR China; College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, PR China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730046, PR China.
authors.forename: Jun-Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730046, PR China.
authors.forename: Guo-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blair
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, PR China.
authors.forename: Li-Zhi
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, PR China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730046, PR China; College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, PR China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 225009, PR China. Electronic address: xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Xing-Quan
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D023061:Gene Order; D059646:Genome Size; D049751:Genome, Helminth; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D058974:Phylogeography; D014200:Trematoda / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Mitochondrial genome; Notocotylidae trematodes; Ogmocotyle sikae; Phylogenetic analysis