title: Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue WormArmillifer agkistrodontis.
abstract: Armillifer agkistrodontis(Ichthyostraca: Pantastomida) is a parasitic pathogen, only reported in China, which can cause a zoonotic disease, pentastomiasis. A complete mitochondrial (mt) genome was 16,521 bp comprising 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 1 non-coding region (NCR). A phylogenetic tree drawn with the concatenated amino acid sequences of the 6 conserved PCGs (atp6, cox1-3, andnad2) showed thatA. agkistrodontisandArmillifer armillatusconstituted a clade Pentastomida which was a sister group of the Branchiura. The complete mt genome sequence ofA. agkistrodontisprovides important genetic markers for both phylogenetic and epidemiological studies of pentastomids.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
authors.forename: Fu-Nan
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
authors.forename: Hong-Xiang
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
authors.forename: Rui-Xiang
authors.initials: RX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.|College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530005, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Jing
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.|National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D057078:Pentastomida / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
keywords: Armillifer agkistrodontis; mitochondrial genome; pentastome; pentastomid; phylogenetics