Molecular phylogeny of the megadiverse insect infraorder Bibionomorpha<i>sensu lato</i>(Diptera)

Ševčı́k, Jan; Kaspřák, David; Mantič, Michal; Fitzgerald, Scott J.; Ševčíková, Tereza; Tóthová, Andrea; Jaschhof, Mathias

doi:10.7717/peerj.2563

Cited by 61 publications

(78 citation statements)

References 43 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Mycetophilidae (sensu stricto) is one of the eight currently recognized families of nematoceran flies belonging to the species‐rich superfamily Sciaroidea (= Mycetophiliformia sensu Amorim & Rindal, ), representing a monophyletic group within the infraorder Bibionomorpha (Ševčík et al ., ). The family is usually divided into six subfamilies: Sciophilinae, Leiinae, Manotinae, Mycomyinae, Gnoristinae, and Mycetophilinae (Søli et al ., ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Mycomyinae is generally recognized as monophyletic, although not yet studied by modern phylogenetic methods. Similarly, Gnoristinae has repeatedly been mentioned as a paraphyletic group, at least with respect to Mycetophilinae (Kallweit, ; Rindal et al ., ; Ševčík et al ., , ), but has not been subjected to extensive phylogenetic hypothesis testing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae, and their position within Mycetophilidae (Diptera)

Kaspřák

Kerr

Sýkora

et al. 2018

Systematic Entomology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The phylogeny of the fungus gnat family Mycetophilidae (Diptera) is reconstructed with a focus on the species-rich and taxonomically difficult subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae. The multigene phylogenetic analyses are based on five nuclear (18S, 28S, CAD, MCS, ITS2) and four mitochondrial (12S, 16S, COI, CytB) gene markers. The analyses strongly support the monophyly of Mycetophilidae and the subfamilies Manotinae, Sciophilinae, Leiinae, and Mycomyinae, although Gnoristinae is paraphyletic with respect to Mycetophilinae. All the genera and groups of genera included are supported as monophyletic, except for Acomoptera Vockeroth, Boletina Staeger, Dziedzickia Johannsen, Ectrepesthoneura Enderlein, and Neoempheria Osten Sacken. Ancestral character state reconstructions were applied to two morphological features present in Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae (i.e. presence of setae on wing membrane and wing vein R 4 ) in order to assess their evolution. The wing vein R 4 appears as an unstable character, spread throughout different clades. A dated phylogeny of the family Mycetophilidae showed that most of the subfamilies of Mycetophilidae originated and diversified during the Cretaceous. The youngest subfamilies, originated in the Paleogene, appear to be Mycomyinae and Mycetophilinae.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae, and their position within Mycetophilidae (Diptera)

Kaspřák

Kerr

Sýkora

et al. 2018

Systematic Entomology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The mitochondrial DNA markers 12S, 16S, cytochrome oxidase I (COI), and cytochrome B (cytB), along with nuclear DNA marker 28S, were extracted, amplifi ed, and sequenced using the protocols in ŠEVČÍK et al (2013ŠEVČÍK et al ( , 2014bŠEVČÍK et al ( , 2016. The sequences are deposited in the GenBank (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank) database (accession numbers below).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leptomorphus sevciki sp. nov., a remarkable new wasp-mimicking fungus gnat from Brunei (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

Kaspřák¹,

Borkent²,

Wahab³

2017

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract A new species of Mycetophilidae (Diptera), Leptomorphus sevciki sp. nov., is described from primary lowland rainforest in Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei. The type specimens were reared from pupae hanging from an unidentified wood encrusting fungus growing on a fallen tree. DNA sequences, including fragments of the nuclear 28S region and the mitochondrial 12S, 16S, CytB and COI (barcode region) genes, were extracted from two specimens, including the holotype.

show abstract

“…Identification of the sister group of Culicomorpha using molecular data has been hindered by sparse gene and taxon sampling (Pawlowski et al ., ; Bertone et al ., ). Inadequate gene and taxon sampling may also explain unexpected results such as the suggestion that the Axymyiidae alone (Ševčík et al ., ) or in combination with Nymphomyiidae (Bertone et al ., ) are the sister group of Culicomorpha. Based on these results, it appears likely that resolving the sister group to Culicomorpha will require large‐scale analyses of all family‐level taxa across the nematoceran dipteran grade.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

A phylogenomic analysis of Culicomorpha (Diptera) resolves the relationships among the eight constituent families

Kutty

Wong

Meusemann

et al. 2018

Systematic Entomology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Culicomorpha is a particularly species‐rich clade within Diptera (true flies) that comprises c. 10% of the described diversity, including many medically important flies. Morphological studies – even when all life stages are included – yield relationships different from those derived from molecular data, notably with regard to the position of Chironomidae. Congruence amongst molecular studies has been weak due to limitations in gene‐ and family‐level taxon coverage. Here we use a whole‐transcriptome shotgun phylogenomic approach to clarify the relationships among all families of Culicomorpha. The dataset comprised 30 species (27 ingroup) and 364 888 amino acid residues for 1233 single‐copy protein‐encoding genes. Likelihood and parsimony analyses produce robust and highly congruent phylogenetic trees, with only one node in conflict. The superfamily Culicoidea is well supported and comprises Dixidae + [Corethrellidae + (Chaoboridae + Culicidae)]. As suggested previously, Chironomoidea is not monophyletic. The well supported Thaumaleidae + Simuliidae is sister group to Culicoidea, with the weakly supported Chironomidae + Ceratopogonidae probably being the sister group of all remaining Culicomorpha. We used random addition concatenation analysis (RADICAL) and four‐cluster likelihood mapping (FcLM) to assess the strengths of nodal support. The sister‐group relationship between Chironomidae + Ceratopogonidae is consistent with the FcLM results but support for this relationship emerges only when 1150 of the 1233 loci are analysed. We discuss briefly nodes that remain poorly supported even with thousands of genes and mention problems with vouchering in transcriptomic studies.

show abstract

Molecular phylogeny of the megadiverse insect infraorder Bibionomorphasensu lato(Diptera)

Cited by 61 publications

References 43 publications

Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae, and their position within Mycetophilidae (Diptera)

Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Gnoristinae and Mycomyinae, and their position within Mycetophilidae (Diptera)

Leptomorphus sevciki sp. nov., a remarkable new wasp-mimicking fungus gnat from Brunei (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

A phylogenomic analysis of Culicomorpha (Diptera) resolves the relationships among the eight constituent families

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About