Empoasca fabae mitogenome assembly

This study presents the identification and annotation of a full-length mitochondrial genome for the leafhopper species Empoasca fabae (Harris 1841) using Illumina sequencing data. The mitogenome was isolated from a contig-level assembly generated with 280M preprocessed reads using SPAdes (v.4.0.0). The identified mitochondrial contig was 14,873 bp in length with 181x coverage. The base composition was A (38.8%), T (39.1%), C (11.7%), and G (10.4%). The mitogenome comprises 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), and showed a unique, non-AT-rich D-loop region.