TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular systematics of Blepharida beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) and relatives
AU - Becerra, Judith X.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author thanks C. Duckett, F. Vencl, and B. Farrell for specimen and DNA donations and B. Groobelaar and D. Furth for specimen identifications. Thanks also to L. Venable and to L. de Jager for assistance with field collections in Mexico and South Africa, to M. Kaplan, A. Agellon, and B. Farrell for advise with molecular work, and to W. Moore for help with Bayesian analysis. Research was founded by NSF Grants DEB-9815648 and DEB-0237545. Writing of this work was done while a Sabbatical Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (DEB-0072909), the University of California, and the Santa Barbara campus. This work is dedicated to Leon de Jager, an outstanding naturalist.
PY - 2004/1
Y1 - 2004/1
N2 - I investigated the phylogenetic relationships within the New World Blepharida and among related genera, using sequences of the Internal Transcriber Spacer 2 (ITS2) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and sequences of the COI and COII genes of the mitochondrial genome. Cladistic analyses were performed using parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods. These methods generated almost identical topologies using the combined data sets. The analyses suggest that Blepharida rhois, the type species, should be separated from the New World Blepharida and that the New World Blepharida might be congeneric with closely related Notozona. Also, according to this phylogeny, all of the New World Blepharida species that feed on Bursera (Burseraceae) form a single monophyletic clade, with the Afrotropical species forming its sister clade. The analyses also identified four main groups of species within the New World Blepharida.
AB - I investigated the phylogenetic relationships within the New World Blepharida and among related genera, using sequences of the Internal Transcriber Spacer 2 (ITS2) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and sequences of the COI and COII genes of the mitochondrial genome. Cladistic analyses were performed using parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods. These methods generated almost identical topologies using the combined data sets. The analyses suggest that Blepharida rhois, the type species, should be separated from the New World Blepharida and that the New World Blepharida might be congeneric with closely related Notozona. Also, according to this phylogeny, all of the New World Blepharida species that feed on Bursera (Burseraceae) form a single monophyletic clade, with the Afrotropical species forming its sister clade. The analyses also identified four main groups of species within the New World Blepharida.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00158-1
DO - 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00158-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347093511
SN - 1055-7903
VL - 30
SP - 107
EP - 117
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
IS - 1
ER -