Four myriapod relatives - but who are sisters? No end to debates on relationships among the four major myriapod subgroups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phylogenetic relationships among the myriapod subgroups Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Symphyla and Pauropoda are still not robustly resolved. The first phylogenomic study covering all subgroups resolved phylogenetic relationships congruently to morphological evidence but is in conflict with most previously published phylogenetic trees based on diverse molecular data. Outgroup choice and long-branch attraction effects were stated as possible explanations for these incongruencies. In this study, we addressed these issues by extending the myriapod and outgroup taxon sampling using transcriptome data.

Results

We generated new transcriptome data of 42 panarthropod species, including all four myriapod subgroups and additional outgroup taxa. Our taxon sampling was complemented b

SUBMITTER: Szucsich NU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7640414 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature