The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Article
Kolokotronis, SO, Foox, J, Rosenfeld, JA et al. (2016). The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
. 1(1), 425-427. 10.1080/23802359.2016.1180268
Kolokotronis, SO, Foox, J, Rosenfeld, JA et al. (2016). The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
. 1(1), 425-427. 10.1080/23802359.2016.1180268
We report the extraction of a bed bug mitogenome from high-throughput sequencing projects originally focused on the nuclear genome of Cimex lectularius. The assembled mitogenome has a similar AT nucleotide composition bias found in other insects. Phylogenetic analysis of all protein-coding genes indicates that C. lectularius is clearly a member of a paraphyletic Cimicomorpha clade within the Order Hemiptera.