The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia)

Kundrata, Robin; Bocáková, Milada; Bocák, Ladislav

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.012

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“…Lissominae has a tendency to group with Lycidae [25], and close relatives of Mastinocerus (e.g. Rhagophthalmus) were never found with Lycidae in all previous analyses [8,13,25]. No morphological character of Lissominae or Mastinocerus supports a close relationship to Lycidae and Iberobaenia.…”

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“…5300 bp), representing the main elateroid lineages and outgroup taxa [8,12]. Sequence data for two representatives of the newly discovered taxon were added to this matrix, generating two versions of the four-marker dataset: (i) v1 a chimeraical terminal was assembled from the sequences of cox1, SSU and LSU for an adult specimen, sequenced using procedures reported by Bocakova et al [13] (GenBank accession nos.…”

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The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

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The ongoing exploration of biodiversity and the implementation of new molecular tools continue to unveil hitherto unknown lineages. Here, we report the discovery of three species of neotenic beetles for which we propose the new family Iberobaeniidae. Complete mitochondrial genomes and rRNA genes recovered Iberobaeniidae as a deep branch in Elateroidea, as sister to Lycidae (net-winged beetles). Two species of the new genus Iberobaenia, Iberobaenia minuta sp. nov. and Iberobaenia lencinai sp. nov. were found in the adult stage. In a separate incidence, a related sequence was identified in bulk samples of soil invertebrates subjected to shotgun sequencing and mitogenome assembly, which was traced to a larval voucher specimen of a third species of Iberobaenia. Iberobaenia shows characters shared with other elateroid neotenic lineages, including soft-bodiedness, the hypognathous head, reduced mouthparts with reduced labial palpomeres, and extremely small-bodied males without strengthening structures due to miniaturization. Molecular dating shows that Iberobaeniidae represents an ancient relict lineage originating in the Lower Jurassic, which possibly indicates a long history of neoteny, usually considered to be evolutionarily short-lived. The apparent endemism of Iberobaeniidae in the Mediterranean region highlights the importance of this biodiversity hotspot and the need for further species exploration even in the well-studied European continent.

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The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

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“…The origin and evolution of bioluminescence in these beetles has prompted a number of studies to illuminate the phylogenetic relationships of these bioluminescent beetles 7–16 . Although both morphological 10–12, 14, 16 and molecular 7–9, 13, 15, 17 features were involved in these studies, molecular evidence has been expected to resolve taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships that have been contentious based on morphological evidence 18 , because the evolutionary history of morphological features is usually complex 18, 19 . Unfortunately, the incongruence of molecular evidence has also been observed in phylogenetic analyses concerning the phylogenetic relationships of these beetles 7–9, 13, 15 , possibly because a single or a few genes lack sufficient phylogenetic signals 20 .…”

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Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of four species of luminescent beetles

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Jiao

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The evolution of bioluminescence has prompted scientific attention to illuminate phylogenetic relationships of luminescent beetles. However, genomic resources are virtually lacking in rhagophthalmids (Rhagophthalmidae) and their related firefly beetles lampyrids (Lampyridae). Here, we employed the Illumina Hiseq 2000 platform and sequenced the whole-body transcriptomes of the four luminescent beetles: one rhagophthalmid (Rhagophthalmus sp.) and three fireflies (Asymmetricata circumdata, Aquatica ficta, and Pyrocoelia pectoralis). We obtained 55.4, 43.4, 38.6, and 36.7 million clean reads for the four species, respectively. All reads were assembled into contigs from which unigenes were derived. All unigenes were annotated by publicly available databases, and a total of 4325 orthologous genes were identified. Using multiple phylogenetic approaches, our transcriptome data confirmed the distinctiveness of Rhagophthalmidae from Lampyridae, which was also supported by our mitogenome analysis using three newly determined mitogenome sequences and 12 previously published ones. Together, this study is the first report of whole transcriptome sequencing data in Rhagophthalmidae and Lampyridae species, representing a valuable genomic resource for studying the origin and evolution of some remarkable traits in these beetles such as bioluminescence. Moreover, our transcriptome and mitogenome data provide useful phylogenetic information that could be of importance in future studies of phylogenetic inference.

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“…Most species of Coleoptera possessing bioluminescent organs exhibit soft bodies are members of the cantharoid section of Elateriformia. Kundrata et al (2014) indicated multiple origins for the soft-bodied trait and bioluminescent organs. Malalcahuello lacks bioluminescent organs and its body is harder than Campyloxenus .…”

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Malalcahuello ocaresi gen. & sp. n. (Elateridae, Campyloxeninae)

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The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia)

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The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of four species of luminescent beetles

Malalcahuello ocaresi gen. & sp. n. (Elateridae, Campyloxeninae)

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The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia)

Cited by 131 publications

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The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing

Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of four species of luminescent beetles

Malalcahuello ocaresi gen. &amp; sp. n. (Elateridae, Campyloxeninae)

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