Arthropod Phylotranscriptomics With a Special Focus on the Basal Phylogeny of the Myriapoda.

ABSTRACT: Arthropoda represents the most diverse animal phylum, but clarifying the phylogenetic relationships among arthropod taxa remains challenging given the numerous arthropod lineages that diverged over a short period of time. In order to resolve the most controversial aspects of deep arthropod phylogeny, focusing on the Myriapoda, we conducted phylogenetic analyses based on ten super-matrices comprised of 751 to 1,233 orthologous genes across 64 representative arthropod species, including 28 transcriptomes that were newly generated in this study. Our findings provide unambiguous support for the monophyly of the higher arthropod taxa, Chelicerata, Mandibulata, Myriapoda, Pancrustacea, and Hexapoda, while the Crustacea are paraphyletic, with the class Remipedia supported as the lineage most clos

SUBMITTER: Su ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436689 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature