The complete mitochondrial genome of fungal endosymbiont, Ophiocordycipitaceae sp., isolated from Ricania speculum (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae)

Abstract

Ricania speculum is called as black planthopper, belonging to the family Ricaniidae. We have determined a mitochondrial genome of fungal endosymbiont of R. speculum, belonging to the family Ophicocordycipitaceae. The circular mitogenome of this fungus is 66,785 bp including 32 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 19 transfer RNAs. Its GC ratio is 30.6%. A phylogenetic tree presented that this fungus is clustered with fungi of two genera, Hirsutella and Ophiocordyceps.

Complete Genome Sequence of a Blochmannia Endosymbiont of Colobopsis nipponica

“…Endosymbionts are very commonly identified among at least 15% to 20% of insect species ( 1 ), including ants ( 2 ) and planthoppers ( 3 ). The genus Camponotus and its neighbor genera have developed a strong relationship with the Gammaproteobacteria genus Blochmannia , especially in the early life stage ( 4 ).…”

The complete mitochondrial genome of Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 (Hemiptera: Aphididae) isolated from Plantago asiatica in Korea

“…Like previous study that mitogenome of Ophiocordycipitaceae sp. was rescued from the Ricania speculum sample (Park et al 2020), we sequenced the DNA (37 45 0 74 00 N, 126 94 0 84 00 E; InfoBoss Cyber Herbarium (IN); IBS-00016) prepared from the P. asiatica sample with A. gossypii extracted using DNeasy Plant Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany). The sample of A. gossypii isolated from P. asiatica was identified based on its morphological features.…”

The complete mitochondrial genome of Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae): investigation of intraspecific variations on mitochondrial genome

“…It is known that Ricania japonica contains yeast-like fungal symbiont which recycles uric acid secreted by the host with its own uricase (urate oxidase; EC1.7.3.3; Hongoh and Ishikawa 2000 ). Recent study of fungal mitochondrial genomes rescued from NGS raw reads of the R. speculum sample presented that it belonged to the family Ophicocordycipitaceae (Park, Xi, Park, Lee 2020 ). It indicates that NGS sequencing is an efficient method in detecting symbionts like previous studies (Bae et al.…”