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. 2020 Jan 24;5(1):800–801. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1715859

Mitochondrial genome characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Blastocladiella sp. (Blastocladiales: Blastocladiaceae)

Xu Wang 1, Na Liu 1,✉
PMCID: PMC7748703  PMID: 33366757

Abstract

In the present study, the complete mitochondrial genome of an early diverging fungus Blastocladiella sp. was assembled by the next-generation sequencing. The complete mitochondrial genome of Blastocladiella sp. is 33, 800 bp in length and consists of 11,620 (34.38%) adenine, 5,047 (14.93%) cytosine, 6,025 (17.83%) guanosine and 11,108 (32.86%) thymine. The genome contains 19 protein-coding genes, 24 tRNA genes and 2 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on the combined mitochondrial gene set showed that Blastocladiella sp. has a close relationship with Allomyces macrogynus and Blastocladiella emersonii.

Keywords: Blastocladiella, Mitochondrial genome, Phylogenetic analysis

The genus Blastocladiella is a group of saprophytic freshwater fungus, belonging to the phylum Blastocladiomycota (Gomes-Vieira et al. 2018; Luevano-Martinez et al. 2019). Blastocladiella spp. are early diverging fungi, located near the base of the fungal phylogenetic tree and close to the separation of fungi, animals and plants (James et al. 2006; Krings et al. 2016). Mitochondrial genome has been widely used to understand the evolution and phylogeny of species due to its rapid evolution rate, single parent inheritance and other characteristics (Li, Chen, et al. 2018). The analysis of mitochondrial genome characterization of Blastocladiella species is helpful for us to understand the evolution and origin of the genus Blastocladiella.

The specimen Blastocladiella sp. was isolated from freshwater in Zhengzhou, Henan, China (113°40′E; 34°23′N) and was stored in Henan Agricultural University (No. Bsp07). Total genomic DNA of the specimen was extracted using a Fungal DNA Kit D3390-00 (Omega Bio-Tek, Norcross, GA, USA), and stored in the sequencing company (BGI Tech, Shenzhen, China). We constructed the sequencing libraries with the extracted genomic DNA using a NEB Next Ultra II DNA Library Prep Kit (NEB, Beijing, China) following the manufacturer’s instructions. Whole genomic sequencing was performed using an Illumina HiSeq 2500 Platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). The Blastocladiella sp. mitochondrial genome was assembled and annotated according to previously described methods (Li, Liao, et al. 2018; Li, Wang, et al. 2018; Li et al. 2019a, 2019b).

The complete mitochondrial genome of Blastocladiella sp. is 33, 800 bp in length and consists of 11,620 (34.38%) adenine, 5,047 (14.93%) cytosine, 6,025 (17.83%) guanosine and 11,108 (32.86%) thymine. The genome contains 19 protein-coding genes, 24 tRNA genes and 2 rRNA genes. The Blastocladiella sp. mitochondrial genome sequence was submitted to GenBank under the accession number of MN873040.

We used the Bayesian inference (BI) method to create phylogenetic trees based on the combined mitochondrial gene set according to previously described methods (Li, Yang, et al. 2018; Li et al. 2019c). Bayesian analyses were performed with MrBayes v3.2.6 (Ronquist et al. 2012). Phylogenetic analysis showed that Blastocladiella sp. exhibited a close relationship with Allomyces macrogynus (Paquin and Lang 1996) and Blastocladiella emersonii (Tambor et al. 2008) (Figure 1).

Figure 1.

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Phylogenetic relationships of 13 species based on Bayesian inference analysis of 14 conserved protein-coding genes. Support values are bayesian posterior probabilities. The brackets after the species name are GenBank accession numbers of species used in the phylogenetic analysis.

Funding Statement

This study was provided by Project of Henan Educational Department of China (18A180015, 18A210017), Sci-Tech Project of Henan Province, China (182102110278), and Sci-Tech Innovation Fund of Henan Agricultural University (KJCX2019A16).

Disclosure statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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