abstract：:In addition to the well known "classical" porcine parvovirus (PPV1; responsible for reproductive failure of susceptible sows) several new porcine parvoviruses have been recognized (PPV2, PPV3 and PPV4) in recent years. The genetic variation, characteristics and evolutionary factors shaping these novel PPVs were studie...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cadar D,Cságola A,Kiss T,Tuboly T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carassius auratus complex is believed to originate from East Eurasia and consist of diploid and triploid forms. Diploid form reproduces sexually, whereas triploid form possesses mixture modes of unisexual gynogenesis and sexual reproduction, which makes it a unique case to study evolutionary issues among vertebrates. ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Jiang FF,Wang ZW,Zhou L,Jiang L,Zhang XJ,Apalikova OV,Brykov VA,Gui JF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monophyly of the muricid subfamily Rapaninae has recently been confirmed with molecular techniques, but its composition and the relationships among its constituent genera remain unclear. We use four genes (28S rRNA, 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, COI) to construct a Bayesian phylogeny of 80...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Claremont M,Vermeij GJ,Williams ST,Reid DG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superfamily Oestroidea, comprising ∼15,000 species, is a large and ecologically diverse clade within the order Diptera. Among its six commonly recognized families, Calliphoridae seems to be crucial for understanding evolutionary relationships in the group, as it is recognized as a controversial paraphyletic groupi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Marinho MA,Junqueira AC,Paulo DF,Esposito MC,Villet MH,Azeredo-Espin AM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, phylogenetics has expanded to routinely include estimation of clade ages in addition to their relationships. Various dating methods have been used, but their relative performance remains understudied. Here, we generate and assemble an extensive phylogenomic data set for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Mulcahy DG,Noonan BP,Moss T,Townsend TM,Reeder TW,Sites JW Jr,Wiens JJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data deluge in post-genomic era demands development of novel data mining tools. Existing molecular phylogeny analyses (MPAs) developed for individual gene/protein sequences are alignment-based. However, the size of genomic data and uncertainties associated with alignments, necessitate development of alignment-free...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kolekar P,Kale M,Kulkarni-Kale U

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a fundamental unit in biology, species are used in a wide variety of studies, and their delimitation impacts every subfield of the life sciences. Thus, it is of utmost importance that species are delimited in an accurate and biologically meaningful way. However, due to morphologically similar, cryptic species, and ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rittmeyer EN,Austin CC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a phylogenetic hypothesis of the anuran clade Terrarana based on partial sequences of nuclear (Tyr and RAG1) and mitochondrial (12S, tRNA-Val, and 16S) genes, testing the monophyly of Ischnocnema and its species series. We performed maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference analyses on 3...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Canedo C,Haddad CF

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barcoding is an initiative to define a standard fragment of DNA to be used to assign sequences of unknown origin to existing known species whose sequences are recorded in databases. This is a difficult task when species are closely related and individuals of these species might have more than one origin. Using a previ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Lou M,Golding GB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study unravels the evolution and biogeographic history of the globally distributed ant genus Crematogaster on the basis of a molecular phylogeny, reconstructed from five nuclear protein-coding genes and a total of 3384 bp of sequence data. A particular emphasis is placed on the evolutionary history of these ants ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Blaimer BB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within butterflies and moths, adult hematophagy is limited to species within the vampire moth genus Calyptra. These moths are placed within the subfamily Calpinae, whose other members are known to exhibit a broad range of feeding behaviors including those that can be considered 'piercers' of fruits or other hosts and ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zaspel JM,Zahiri R,Hoy MA,Janzen D,Weller SJ,Wahlberg N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the proliferation of species-tree methods, empiricists now have to confront the daunting task of method choice. Such decisions might be made based on theoretical considerations alone. However, the messiness of real data means that theoretical ideals may not hold in practice (e.g., with convergence of complicated ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Knowles LL,Lanier HC,Klimov PB,He Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open-habitat chats (genera Myrmecocichla, Cercomela, Oenanthe and relative) are a morphologically and ecologically cohesive group of genera with unclear phylogenetic relationships. They are distributed mostly in open, arid and/or rocky habitats of Africa and Eurasia. Here, we present the most comprehensive molecular p...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Aliabadian M,Kaboli M,Förschler MI,Nijman V,Chamani A,Tillier A,Prodon R,Pasquet E,Ericson PG,Zuccon D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within southern Africa, a link between past climatic changes and faunal diversification has been hypothesized for a diversity of taxa. To test the hypothesis that evolutionary divergences may be correlated to vegetation changes (induced by changes in climate), we selected the widely distributed four-striped mouse, Rha...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： du Toit N,van Vuuren BJ,Matthee S,Matthee CA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional taxonomy of ca. 700 cone snails assigns all species to a single genus, Conus Linnaeus 1758. However, an increasing body of evidence suggests that some belong to a phylogenetically distinct clade that is sometimes referred to as Conasprella. Previous work (Kraus et al., 2011) showed that a short (259 bp...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kraus NJ,Watkins M,Bandyopadhyay PK,Seger J,Olivera BM,Corneli PS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of sap beetles in the genus Carpophilus are minor pests of fresh produce and stored products, and are frequently intercepted in biosecurity operations. In the South Pacific region, the superficially similar species C. maculatus and C. oculatus are frequently encountered in these situations. Three subsp...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Brown SD,Armstrong KF,Cruickshank RH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region coding for the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2) was explored for resolving interspecific relationships in Arnica and lower level taxa in general. The region between exons 17 and 23 was cloned and sequenced for 33 accessions of Arnica and four outgroup taxa. Three paralogues of the RPB2-d c...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ekenäs C,Heidari N,Andreasen K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habit of mining within leaves has evolved convergently in numerous plant-feeding insect taxa. Many leaf-mining groups contain a large number of species with distinct feeding preferences, which makes them highly suitable for studies on the evolutionary history of host-plant use and on the role of niche shifts in sp...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Leppänen SA,Altenhofer E,Liston AD,Nyman T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Brachycybe Wood is a little known group of millipedes comprising eight nominal species distributed throughout North America, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. The group's species are relatively morphologically homogenous and have been described primarily on the basis of differences in somatic morphology...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Brewer MS,Spruill CL,Rao NS,Bond JE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manta rays have been taxonomically revised as two species, Manta alfredi and M. birostris, on the basis of morphological and meristic data, yet the two species occur in extensive mosaic sympatry. We analysed the genetic signatures of the species boundary using a portion of the nuclear RAG1 (681 base pairs), mitochondr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kashiwagi T,Marshall AD,Bennett MB,Ovenden JR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Alcantarea comprises near 30 species endemic to rocky outcrops from eastern Brazil. Most species are ornamental and several are threatened due to habitat loss and over collection. In this paper we examine the phylogenetics of Alcantarea and its relationship with the Brazilian members of Vriesea, a genus of w...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Versieux LM,Barbará T,Wanderley Md,Calvente A,Fay MF,Lexer C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent generic rearrangement of the circumtropical distributed skink genus 'Mabuya' has raised a lot of debate. According to this molecular phylogeny based rearrangement, the tropical Asian members of this genus have been assigned to Eutropis. However, in these studies the Asian members of 'Mabuya' were largely sample...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Datta-Roy A,Singh M,Srinivasulu C,Karanth KP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Galápagos archipelago has never been connected to any continental land masses, so it is of interest to know the colonization and diversification history of its endemic species. We analyzed the phylogenetic placement of the endemic Galápagos flycatcher, M. magnirostris, within Myiarchus by using the genes ND2 and c...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sari EH,Parker PG

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Diplodactylidae is the most ecologically diverse and geographically widespread radiation of geckos within Australasia. Herein we present a first comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of relationships of diplodactylid geckos currently assigned to the genus Oedura, a group of relatively generalised arboreal Aus...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Oliver PM,Bauer AM,Greenbaum E,Jackman T,Hobbie T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic isolation and growing climate aridity played major roles in the evolution of Australian legumes. It is likely that these two factors also impacted on the evolution of their root-nodule bacteria. To investigate this issue, we applied a multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) approach to examine Bradyrhizobium is...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Stępkowski T,Watkin E,McInnes A,Gurda D,Gracz J,Steenkamp ET

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first phylogenetic study of the intraspecific variability within Paramecium multimicronucleatum with the application of two-loci analysis (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2-5'LSU rDNA and COI mtDNA) carried out on numerous strains originated from different continents. The species has been shown to have a complex structure of...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Tarcz S,Potekhin A,Rautian M,Przyboś E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrotricha is a species-rich phylum of microscopical animals that contains two main orders, Chaetonotida and Macrodasyida. Gastrotrichs are important members of the aquatic environment and significant players in the study of animal evolution. In spite of their ecological and evolutionary importance, their internal r...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Paps J,Riutort M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scapania is a northern temperate genus with a few disjunctions in the south. Despite receiving considerable attention, the supraspecific classification of this genus remains unsatisfactorily solved. We use three molecular markers (nrITS, cpDNA trnL-F region, atpB-rbcL spacer) and 175 accessions belonging to 50 species...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Heinrichs J,Bombosch A,Feldberg K,Kreier HP,Hentschel J,Eckstein J,Long D,Zhu RL,Schäfer-Verwimp A,Schmidt AR,Shaw B,Shaw AJ,Váňa J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the evolutionary history of snow voles, genus Chionomys, we studied the phylogeography of Chionomysnivalis across its range and investigated its relationships with two congeneric species, Chionomysgud and Chionomysroberti, using independent molecular markers. Analyses were based on mitochondrial (~940 bp ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Yannic G,Burri R,Malikov VG,Vogel P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative multispecies studies allow contrasting the effect of past and present oceanographic processes on phylogeographic patterns. In the present study, a fragment of the COI gene was analyzed in seven decapod crustacean species from five families and with different bathymetric distributions. A total of 769 indivi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： García-Merchán VH,Robainas-Barcia A,Abelló P,Macpherson E,Palero F,García-Rodríguez M,Gil de Sola L,Pascual M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Gephyromantis is a clade within the Malagasy-Comoroan family Mantellidae composed of rainforest frogs that live and breed to varying degrees independently from water. Based on DNA sequences of five mitochondrial and five nuclear genes we inferred the phylogeny of these frogs with full taxon coverage at the s...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kaffenberger N,Wollenberg KC,Köhler J,Glaw F,Vieites DR,Vences M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chenopodium is a large and morphologically variable genus of annual and perennial herbs with an almost global distribution. All subgenera and most sections of Chenopodium were sampled along with other genera of Chenopodieae, Atripliceae and Axyrideae across the subfamily Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae), totalling to ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fuentes-Bazan S,Mansion G,Borsch T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various DNA sequence-based methods for species delineation have recently been developed to assess the species-richness of highly diverse, neglected invertebrate taxa. These methods, however, need to be tested under a variety of conditions, including the use of different markers and parameters. Here, we explored the sp...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ceccarelli FS,Sharkey MJ,Zaldívar-Riverón A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

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 hig...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Groenenberg DS,Neubert E,Gittenberger E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships within the bryozoan order Cheilostomata are currently uncertain, with many morphological hypotheses proposed but scarcely tested by independent means of molecular analysis. This research uses DNA sequence data across five loci of both mitochondrial and nuclear origin from 91 species of cheil...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Knight S,Gordon DP,Lavery SD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen an increasing awareness of the importance of hybridization and introgression in plant evolution. Both processes were also invoked to have had a strong impact in the evolution of Palaua, based on morphological intermediacy. Here, we used nuclear ITS and cellulose synthase DNA sequences to assess ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Schneider JV,Schulte K,Aguilar JF,Huertas ML

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of non-coding plastid DNA sequence data based on a broad sampling of all major Asian Begonia sections (ndhA intron, ndhF-rpl32 spacer, rpl32-trnL spacer, 3977 aligned characters, 84 species) were used to reconstruct the phylogeny of Asian Begonia and to test the monophyly of ma...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Thomas DC,Hughes M,Phutthai T,Rajbhandary S,Rubite R,Ardi WH,Richardson JE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships of Croton section Cleodora (Klotzsch) Baill. were evaluated using the nuclear ribosomal ITS and the chloroplast trnL-F and trnH-psbA regions. Our results show a strongly supported clade containing most previously recognized section Cleodora species, plus some other species morphologically si...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Caruzo MB,van Ee BW,Cordeiro I,Berry PE,Riina R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila virilis group is one of the major lineages of Drosophila previously recognised and it has been used as a model for different types of studies. It comprises 13 species whose phylogenetic relationships are not well resolved. In the present study, six nuclear genes (Adh, fused, Gpdh, NonA, CG9631 and CG721...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Morales-Hojas R,Reis M,Vieira CP,Vieira J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular data from three protein encoding genes and 49 taxa (98 specimens from 20 African countries), we provide an extended phylogeny of Ceratitis and investigate the evolution of stenophagy across clades. Bayesian tree reconstructions support previously proposed monophyletic lineages (Pardalaspis, Pterandrus ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Erbout N,Virgilio M,Lens L,Barr N,De Meyer M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00