mitochondrial genome of the common cattle grub, Hypoderma lineatum

• Published in: Medical and veterinary entomology Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 329 - 335
• Main Authors: WEIGL, S, TESTINI, G, PARISI, A, DANTAS-TORRES, F, TRAVERSA, D, COLWELL, D.D, OTRANTO, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2010; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: animal diseases; Animals; Cattle - parasitology; Chrysomya putoria; Cochliomyia hominivorax; Dermatobia hominis; Diptera; Diptera - genetics; DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics; genes; Genes, Insect - genetics; genetic markers; genome; Genome, Mitochondrial - genetics; genomics; Hypoderma lineatum; insect pests; larvae; Lucilia sericata; mitochondrial DNA; molecular genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; myiasis; nucleotide sequences; Oestridae; Oestroidea; pest monitoring; Phylogeny; Polymerase Chain Reaction; sequence analysis; veterinary parasitology
• ISSN: 0269-283X; 1365-2915
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00873.x

The mitochondrial DNA of the cattle grub Hypoderma lineatum (de Villers) (Diptera: Oestridae) was completely sequenced. The entire molecule was 16 354 bp long and presented a heavy bias towards A + T, which accounted for 77.8% of the whole genome. Hypoderma lineatum genes were organized in the same order and orientation as in the mitochondrial genomes available for other species belonging to the Oestroidea superfamily and compared in this study [Chrysomya putoria (Wiedemann), Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), Lucilia sericata (Meigen) and Dermatobia hominis (L.)], except for the occurrence of a 102-bp non-coding region partially present in other species. The complete sequence of H. lineatum will represent a useful dataset to evaluate the evolutionary pattern of mtDNA within Oestroidea by using molecular information in diagnostic, taxonomic and evolutionary studies.