Abstract:
:A paper on the 'Molecular phylogeny of Western Palaearctic Helicidae s.l.', published by Steinke et al. (2004) in this journal, is critically analysed. Several obvious errors are corrected and methodological weaknesses are revealed. BLAST searches on the sequences published in that paper and now in GenBank, showed high percentages of similarity of the alleged species with taxa that are considered only distantly related in the literature. Inspection of the so-called voucher specimens showed that some shells were misidentified, whereas others contained dirt or were bleached, indicating that these had been collected empty. Obviously the sequences published for those species could not have originated from those specimens, which cannot be considered vouchers therefore, even if they are from the same locality. In other instances, spurious sequences were published for correctly identified voucher specimens. For several species for which we collected specimens ourselves, the COI or the 16S sequence, or both, clearly differed from the results published by Steinke et al. The consequences of our results for the molecular data on helicid gastropods and their classification are listed.
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Mol Phylogenet Evoljournal_title
Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionauthors
Groenenberg DS,Neubert E,Gittenberger Edoi
10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.024subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-12-01 00:00:00pages
914-23issue
3eissn
1055-7903issn
1095-9513pii
S1055-7903(11)00383-6journal_volume
61pub_type
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