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The stonefly Mesocapnia daxingana (Plecoptera: Capniidae) is a new species and the capniid genus Mesocapnia are first reported from China. Their potential use as biomonitoring for water quality assessment is well-known. In this study, we present the mitogenome of M. daxingana, which is 15,524 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs and a partial control region (719 bp). All genes have the similar locations and strands with that of other published stoneflies. The nucleotide composition is biased toward A and T, with 68.1% of A + T content. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that M. daxingana is closely related to Mesocapnia arizonensis and Apteroperla tikumana. Both maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses showed strong support for a monophyletic Capniidae, and other five stonefly family formed a monophyletic group.
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This research was supported by the Postdoctoral Research Base of Henan Institute of Science and Technology, the Key Scientific Research Project of Henan Province (No. 16A210045), and the landmark Innovative Project of Henan Institute of Science and Technology (No. 2015BZ04).
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Wang, Y., Cao, J., Li, W. et al. The mitochondrial genome of Mesocapnia daxingana (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Conservation Genet Resour 9, 639–642 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0745-x
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