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The Mitogenome Of The Bed Bug Cimex Lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Jonathan Foox, Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld, Mercer R. Brugler, Darryl Reeves, Joshua B. Benoit, Warren Booth, Grant Robison, Michael Steffen, Zoe Sakas, Subba R. Palli, Coby Schal, Stephen Richards, Apurva Narechania, Richard H. Baker, Louis N. Sorkin, George Amato, Christopher E. Mason, Mark E. Siddall, Rob Desalle Jan 2016

The Mitogenome Of The Bed Bug Cimex Lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Jonathan Foox, Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld, Mercer R. Brugler, Darryl Reeves, Joshua B. Benoit, Warren Booth, Grant Robison, Michael Steffen, Zoe Sakas, Subba R. Palli, Coby Schal, Stephen Richards, Apurva Narechania, Richard H. Baker, Louis N. Sorkin, George Amato, Christopher E. Mason, Mark E. Siddall, Rob Desalle

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We report the extraction of a bed bug mitogenome from high-throughput sequencing projects originally focused on the nuclear genome of Cimex lectularius. The assembled mitogenome has a similar AT nucleotide composition bias found in other insects. Phylogenetic analysis of all protein-coding genes indicates that C. lectularius is clearly a member of a paraphyletic Cimicomorpha clade within the Order Hemiptera.