Journal article
Complete Mitochondrial Genome for Lucilia cuprina dorsalis (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from the Northern Territory, Australia
Shilpa Kapoor, Ying Ting Yang, Robyn N Hall, Robin B Gasser, Vernon M Bowles, Trent Perry, Clare A Anstead
Genes | MDPI | Published : 2024
Abstract
The Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina dorsalis, is a major sheep ectoparasite causing subcutaneous myiasis (flystrike), which can lead to reduced livestock productivity and, in severe instances, death of the affected animals. It is also a primary colonizer of carrion, an efficient pollinator, and used in maggot debridement therapy and forensic investigations. In this study, we report the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of L. c. dorsalis from the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, where sheep are prohibited animals, unlike the rest of Australia. The mt genome is 15,943 bp in length, comprising 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), an..
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Awarded by Australian Wool Innovation
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) for their assistance with advertising our blowfly sample collection requests to their grower networks and providing the funding that supported this study. Fly collection was conducted through the Meat and Livestock Australia funded project P.PSH.1059. We wish to thank William Dobbie from the Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the fly collection, and Peter Jones and Ros Mourant (CSIRO Health & Biosecurity) for broader project administrative support. The University of Melbourne provided computational facilities for bioinformatic analyses and molecular labs for the preparation of sample DNA.