Phylogeny of the Drosophila saltans species group based on combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences |
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Authors: | O'Grady PM; Clark JB; Kidwell MG |
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Institution: | Program in Genetics, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA. ogradyp@ccit.arizona.edu |
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Abstract: | Nucleotide sequences from two nuclear loci, alcohol dehydrogenase and
internal transcribed spacer-1 of the nuclear ribosomal DNA repeats, and two
mitochondrial genes, cytochrome oxidase I and cytochrome oxidase II, were
determined from nine species in the Drosophila saltans species group. The
partition homogeneity test and partitioned Bremer support were used to
measure incongruence between phylogenetic hypotheses generated from
individual partitions. Individual loci were generally congruent with each
other and consistent with the previously proposed morphological hypothesis,
although they differed in level of resolution. Since extreme conflict
between partitions did not exist, the data were combined and analyzed
simultaneously. The total evidence method gave a more resolved and highly
supported phylogeny, as indicated by bootstrap proportions and decay
indices, than did any of the individual analyses. The cordata and elliptica
subgroups, considered to have diverged early in the history of the D.
saltans group, were sister taxa to the remainder of the saltans group. The
sturtevanti subgroup, represented by D. milleri and D. sturtevanti,
occupies an intermediate position in this phylogeny. The saltans and
parasaltans subgroups are sister clades and occupy the most recently
derived portion of the phylogeny. As with previous morphological studies,
phylogenetic relationships within the saltans subgroup were not
satisfactorily resolved by the molecular data.
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