Mitochondrial Genomes Provide Insights into the Phylogeny of Culicomorpha (Insecta: Diptera).

ABSTRACT: Culicomorpha is a monophyletic group containing most bloodsucking lower dipterans, including many important vectors of pathogens. However, the higher-level phylogenetic relationships within Culicomorpha are largely unresolved, with multiple competing hypotheses based on molecular sequence data. Here we sequenced four nearly complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes representing four culicomorph families, and combined these new data with published mt genomes to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of all eight extant culicomorph families. We estimated phylogenies using four datasets and three methods. We also used four-cluster likelihood mapping to study potential incongruent topologies supported by the different datasets and phylogenetic questions generated by the previous studies. The res

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6387087 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature