Korean J Parasitol.
2016 Dec;54(6):813-817. 10.3347/kjp.2016.54.6.813.
Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis
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- 1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. huw@fudan.edu.cn
- 2College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530005, China.
- 3National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China.
- KMID: 2367425
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.6.813
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, and nad2) showed that A. agkistrodontis and Armillifer armillatus constituted a clade Pentastomida which was a sister group of the Branchiura. The complete mt genome sequence of A. agkistrodontis provides important genetic markers for both phylogenetic and epidemiological studies of pentastomids.
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