The complete mitochondrial genomes of two ghost moths, Thitarodes renzhiensis and Thitarodes yunnanensis: the ancestral gene arrangement in Lepidoptera

Table 2 Nucleotide compositions of the Thitarodes renzhiensis ( T r ) and Thitarodes yunnanensis ( T y ) mitogenomes

Feature	A (%)		C (%)		G (%)		T (%)		A + T (%)
Feature	T r	T y	T r	T y	T r	T y	T r	T y	T r	T y
Whole genome	41.09	40.93	11.17	10.36	7.54	7.30	40.20	41.41	81.28	82.34
Protein-coding genes	34.15	35.04	10.14	9.24	10.87	10.18	44.84	45.54	78.99	80.58
1st codon positions	37.18	36.94	9.54	8.90	15.62	15.75	37.66	38.41	74.84	75.35
2nd codon positions	22.07	22.10	15.99	15.91	13.12	12.90	48.82	49.09	70.89	71.18
3rd codon positions	43.20	46.10	4.89	2.90	3.87	1.88	48.04	49.11	91.24	95.22
tRNA genes	43.25	43.06	7.47	6.97	9.10	7.81	40.19	42.16	83.44	85.22
rrnL gene	44.34	44.92	5.32	5.04	9.29	8.95	41.05	41.08	85.39	86.00
rrnS gene	43.90	45.05	4.88	4.89	9.76	9.01	41.46	41.06	85.37	86.10
A + T-rich region	45.06	37.42	4.75	5.42	4.68	5.21	45.50	51.94	90.56	89.37

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