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It has also been reported to harbour several zoonotic pathogens, including\n                    <jats:italic>Coxiella burnetii<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Francisella tularensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and various\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    species. Here, we aim to report the complete mitochondrial genome of\n                    <jats:italic>Haemaphysalis parva<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Ixodida: Ixodidae), a zoonotic tick species with significant public health relevance in T\u00fcrkiye.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Methods<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    For this purpose, we isolated total genomic DNA from\n                    <jats:italic>H. parva<\/jats:italic>\n                    and sequenced using Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform, raw reads were processed, and then the mitogenome was assembled using the Geneious R9 program with \u201cmap to reference\u201d and verified via \u201cde novo assembly\u201d options.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results and Discussion<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    The mitogenome of\n                    <jats:italic>H. parva<\/jats:italic>\n                    is a circular DNA molecule of 14,843\u00a0bp, comprising the canonical 37 genes (13 PCGs, 22 tRNAs, and 2 rRNAs) and two major non-coding regions (312\u00a0bp and 304\u00a0bp). Strand-specific compositional bias revealed a strong A\u2009+\u2009T enrichment (77.8%) and pervasive negative AT- and GC-skew values, diverging from the typical skew profiles observed in most arthropods and possibly reflecting lineage-specific replication asymmetries. All PCGs exhibited AT-biased codon usage, preferentially encoding hydrophobic amino acids. Several genes (\n                    <jats:italic>cox1<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>cytB<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>nd2<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>nd6<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) showed dN\/dS ratios &gt;\u20091, suggesting positive adaptive evolution. Comparative mitogenomic analysis of 27\n                    <jats:italic>Haemaphysalis<\/jats:italic>\n                    species confirmed overall structural conservation but identified a rearranged\n                    <jats:italic>nd1<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2013rrnS gene block relative to the\n                    <jats:italic>Ixodes<\/jats:italic>\n                    reference genome. Collinearity and synteny analyses revealed multiple conserved sequence blocks, including a putative humanin-like ORF within the rrnL gene region, indicating potential dual-coding or regulatory elements within non-PCG regions.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11686-026-01243-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,27]],"date-time":"2026-02-27T13:58:48Z","timestamp":1772200728000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Complete Mitogenome of Haemaphysalis parva (Arachnida: Ixodidae) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Haemaphysalis Species"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"71","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0806-8531","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Habe\u015f Bilal","family":"Aydemir","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1681-8363","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adem","family":"Keskin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"1243_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"72","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mito.2022.11.004","volume":"68","author":"MN Aydemir","year":"2023","unstructured":"Aydemir MN, Aydemir HB, Budak M, K\u0131z\u0131ltepe B, \u00c7elebi M\u015e, Korkmaz EM, Ba\u015f\u0131b\u00fcy\u00fck HH (2023) A novel, conserved and possibly functional motif \u201cWHWGHTW\u201d in mitochondrial transcription across Bilateria. 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