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KMID : 0425120160540060813
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2016 Volume.54 No. 6 p.813 ~ p.817
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis
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Li Jian
He Fu Nan
Zheng Hong Xiang
Zhang Rui Xiang
Ren Yi Jing
Hu Wei
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Abstract
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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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KEYWORD
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Armillifer agkistrodontis, mitochondrial genome, pentastomid, pentastome, phylogenetics
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