**3.3. Recoding of mitogenes in** *Aleurodicus dispersus*

#### *3.3.1. Two ORFs on the same strand: AT8*

The case of the missing ATP synthetase subunit 8 is solved by Blastp analysis of the peptide coded by the +2 frameshifted sequence of gene AT8. Residues at positions 8–48 (the gene has 49 codons including stop codon) in frame +2 have 75% similarity with congeneric mitochondrial ATP synthetase subunit 8 of *Aleurodicus dugesii* (YP\_026055, e value 2 × 10−<sup>9</sup> , see alignment in **Figure 1**). It seems likely that the regular AT8 gene codes for the corresponding protein. This frame does not contain stops, implying that this gene has two stopless ORFs. The GenBank-annotated ORF does not correspond to the regular AT8, which is the +2 frameshifted sequence of the annotated sequence.
