Jiang, FanPan, XubinLi, XuankunYu, YanxueZhang, JunhuaJiang, HongshanDou, LiduoZhu, Shuifang2018-08-132018-08-132045-2322http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146281The genus Dacus is one of the most economically important tephritid fruit flies. The first complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Dacus species - D. longicornis was sequenced by next-generation sequencing in order to develop the mitogenome data for this genus. The circular 16,253 bp mitogenome is the typical set and arrangement of 37 genes present in the ancestral insect. The mitogenome data of D. longicornis was compared to all the published homologous sequences of other tephritid species. We discovered the subgenera Bactrocera, Daculus and Tetradacus differed from the subgenus Zeugodacus, the genera Dacus, Ceratitis and Procecidochares in the possession of TA instead of TAA stop codon for COI gene. There is a possibility that the TA stop codon in COI is the synapomorphy in Bactrocera group in the genus Bactrocera comparing with other Tephritidae species. Phylogenetic analyses based on the mitogenome data from Tephritidae were inferred by Bayesian and Maximum-likelihood methods, strongly supported the sister relationship between Zeugodacus and Dacus.The work is supported by the Basic Scientific Research Foundation of Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (No. 2016JK003) and National Key Projects for Research and Development (2016YFC1200605).9 pagesapplication/pdf© The Author(s) 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/animalsbase sequencebayes theoremcodon, terminatorDNA, mitochondrialelectron transport complexhigh-throughput nucleotide sequencingmitochondriaphylogenyribosomaltransfersequence analysis, DNAtephritidaegenome, mitochondrial2016-11-0410.1038/srep36426