Two individual Macrotermes termites sampled from Western and Southern Ethiopia for mitochondrial genome sequencing Genome sequencing and assembly

This project was initial developed to identify the species of Macrotermes termites sampled from several regions in Ethiopia. For two samples, this developed into a project to sequence their mitochondrial genomes. These two individuals were identified as Macrotermes herus and as part of the eastern clade of Macrotermes subhyalinus (M. subhyalinus as currently described is composed of at least two non-sister clades; i.e. it's paraphyletic).

本项目最初旨在鉴定从埃塞俄比亚多个区域采集的大白蚁属（Macrotermes）白蚁样本的物种。针对其中两份样本，该项目进一步拓展为对其线粒体基因组（mitochondrial genome）进行测序的研究。经鉴定，这两个个体分别为赫氏大白蚁（Macrotermes herus）以及属于亚透明大白蚁（Macrotermes subhyalinus）东部演化支的类群；当前分类学描述下的亚透明大白蚁（M. subhyalinus）至少包含两个非姐妹演化支，即该类群为并系群。