Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (7): 98-106.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2021-0628

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Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Aphelenchoides medicagus

XUE Qing1(), DU Hong-rui1, XUE Hui-ying2, WANG Yi-hao1, WANG Xuan1(), LI Hong-mei1   

  1. 1. College of Plant Protection,Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests,Ministry of Education,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095
    2. College of Resources and Environment,Tibet College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry,Linzhi 860000
  • Received:2021-06-28 Online:2021-07-26 Published:2021-08-13
  • Contact: WANG Xuan E-mail:qingxue@njau.edu.cn;xuanwang@njau.edu.cn

Abstract:

Aphelenchoides medicagus is a facultative plant-parasitic nematode that may complete its life cycles on various fungi,meanwhile it has weak parasitism on soybean and alfalfa. In presented study,Illumina platform was used to sequence A. medicagus genome in low coverage. Assembly was made by extracting mitochondrial reads and subsequently assembled by the seed sequence. For the AT rich non-coding region,amplification was made using PCR and sequenced by Sanger method. The jointed result from the assembled and amplified sequences revealed the mitochondrial genome of A. medicagus consisted of 14 411 bp nucleotides,including 12 protein coding genes,22 tRNA and 2 rRNA genes after gene annotation. These genes are arranged in same way as those in A. besseyi,Bursaphelenchus xylophilus,and B. mucronatus. The phylogeny analysis using amino acid sequences showed that A. medicagus and A. besseyi clustered together as a sister group,which together with B. xylophilus and B. mucronatus to form a highly supported monophyletic Aphelenchoididae clade. This study demonstrates that low-coverage whole-genome sequencing method can be used to assemble the most of mitochondrial genome,and thus support this technique to be a feasible tool in mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Key words: Aphelenchoides medicagus, Aphelenchoididae, mitochondrial genome, Illumina platform, low-coverage whole-genome sequencing