The complete mitogenome of the Common Mormon Papilio polytes has been reconstructed from the whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. The circular genome is 15,256 bp in length, and consists of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and one D-loop region. All PCGs are initiated with ATN codons except for the COI gene, which uses the unusual CGA as its start codon. Some PCGs harbor TAG (ND3) or incomplete stop codon T (COI & COII), while all the others use TAA as their stop codons. The nucleotide composition is highly asymmetric (39.6% A, 41.5% T, 7.5% G, 11.4% C) with an overall GC content of 18.9%.
Keywords: Butterfly; illumina sequencing; mitochondrial genome; mitogenomics.