Figure 2

Linear comparison of partial mt genome structure in M. australiensis and X. vesparum. Elements in red denote deviations from the ancestral holometabolan arrangement [29, 30]. Readers are referred to the primary research for a complete catalogue of genome rearrangements in Holometabola: Hymenoptera [32]; Coleoptera [88–93]; Neuropterida [34, 94, 95], a shift from WCY to CWY is probably synapomorphic for Neuroptera but not for other neuropterid orders; Lepidoptera [33, 75–81] are characterized by a synapomorphic tRNA rearrangement MIQ, from IQM, 5' of nad2 (not shown); Diptera [60–74].