Complete mitochondrial genome of Coenomyia ferruginea (Scopoli). (Diptera, Coenomyiidae)

Abstract

The dipteran family Coenomyiidae was firstly separated from the Xylophagidae by Akrira Nagatomi in 1975. We sequenced and annotated the mitochondrial genome of Coenomyia ferruginea, the first representative of genera Coenomyia with complete mitochondrial data. This mitogenome is 17,283 bp totally, which consists of 22 transfer RNAs, 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, and 1 non-coding control region. All genes have the conservational arrangement like other published species of brachyceran flies. The nucleotide composition biases toward A and T, the overall A + T% was up to 75.4% of the entire mitogenome. Both Bayesian inference and ML analysis strongly supported the sister relationship between Coenomyiidae and Xylophagidae. Our results also suggested that Xylophagomorpha is the sister group to Stratiomyomorpha.