Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Acanthocephala: nucleotide alignments produce long-branch attraction artefacts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Classification of the Acanthocephala, a clade of obligate endoparasites, remains unresolved because of insufficiently strong resolution of morphological characters and scarcity of molecular data with a sufficient resolution. Mitochondrial genomes may be a suitable candidate, but they are available for a small number of species and their suitability for the task has not been tested thoroughly.

Methods

Herein, we sequenced the first mitogenome for the large family Rhadinorhynchidae: Micracanthorhynchina dakusuiensis. These are also the first molecular data generated for this entire genus. We conducted a series of phylogenetic analyses using concatenated nucleotides (NUC) and amino acids (AAs) of all 12 protein-coding genes, three different algorithms, and the entire

SUBMITTER: Gao JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583589 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature