The complete mitochondrial genome of a grasshopper endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, Uvaroviola multispinosa (Acrididae: Oedipodinae).

The grasshopper Uvaroviola multispinosa (Acrididae: Oedipodinae), is an agricultural pest to pasture and limitedly distributed in Qinghai-Tibet plateau of China. The complete mitochondrial genome of U. multispinosa is 15,620 bp long, which comprises of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and a putative non-coding control region (GenBank accession ID: MK829651). These genes are unequally distributed on different DNA chains, which 23 are located on the majority Chain. The nucleotide composition shows evidently bias (A, C, G, and T was 43.8, 14.8, 10.1, and 31.3%, respectively) with an overall AT content of 75.2%. All PCGs are initiated by ATN codons, among them ATG is the most preferred. Eleven PCGs use a common stop codon of TAA or TAG, whereas the remaining two were terminated with single T as incomplete stop codon. The phylogenetic relationships based on Bayes method showed that U. multispinosa is closely related to Compsorhipis davidiana , which is in accordance with its traditional morphological classification.
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