title: Complete mitochondrial genome of the giant liver fluke Fascioloides magna (Digenea: Fasciolidae) and its comparison with selected trematodes.
abstract: Representatives of the trematode family Fasciolidae are responsible for major socio-economic losses worldwide. Fascioloides magna is an important pathogenic liver fluke of wild and domestic ungulates. To date, only a limited number of studies concerning the molecular biology of F. magna exist. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to determine the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequence of F. magna, and assess the phylogenetic relationships of this fluke with other trematodes based on the mtDNA dataset.
  
  
  
  The complete F. magna mt genome sequence is 14,047 bp. The gene content and arrangement of the F. magna mt genome is similar to those of Fasciola spp., except that trnE is located between trnG and the only non-coding region in F. magna mt genome. Phylogenetic relationships of F. magna with selected trematodes using Bayesian inference (BI) was reconstructed based on the concatenated amino acid sequences for 12 protein-coding genes, which confirmed that the genus Fascioloides is closely related to the genus Fasciola; the intergeneric differences of amino acid composition between the genera Fascioloides and Fasciola ranged 17.97-18.24 %.
  
  
  
  The determination of F. magna mt genome sequence provides a valuable resource for further investigations of the phylogeny of the family Fasciolidae and other trematodes, and represents a useful platform for designing appropriate molecular markers.
authors: 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: Jun
authors: J
authors: Ma
authors: 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: Jun-Jun
authors: JJ
authors: He
authors: 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: Guo-Hua
authors: GH
authors: Liu
authors: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, 128 44, Czech Republic.
authors: Roman
authors: R
authors: Leontovyč
authors: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, 128 44, Czech Republic. kasa@post.cz.|Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic. kasa@post.cz.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Kašný
authors: 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. xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com.|College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410128, PR China. xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com.
authors: Xing-Quan
authors: XQ
authors: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005210:Fasciola hepatica / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005212:Fasciolidae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D049751:Genome, Helminth; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology*
chemical_list: D015801:Helminth Proteins
keywords: Fasciola; Fascioloides magna; Mitochondrial genome; Phylogenetic analysis