Cardoso, Danon Clemes and Cristiano, Maykon Passos and Heinze, Juergen and Tavares, Mara Garcia (2014) A nuclear DNA based phylogeny of endemic sand dune ants of the genus Mycetophylax (Emery, 1913): How morphology is reflected in molecular data. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 70. pp. 378-382. ISSN 1055-7903, 1095-9513
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Molecular methods have substantially advanced our knowledge about ant systematics in the past few years. Here, we infer the molecular phylogeny of sand dune ants of the genus Mycetophylax, Emery 1913 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) using 730 base pairs of DNA sequences of the two nuclear genes longwave rhodopsin and wingless. Our analyses indicate that Mycetophylax is monophyletic, as suggested by its morphological characters. M. morschi, previously considered a species of Cyphomyrmex due to a scrobe-like impressed area on the head, forms a well-supported cluster with the two other species of Mycetophylax, M. conformis and M. simplex. Our analysis yields the first comprehensive phylogeny of Mycetophylax based on molecular data and includes specimens from localities within a wide distributional range as well as all species belonging to the genus following the recent taxonomic revision. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HYMENOPTERA-FORMICIDAE; SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; POSITION; STATE; Formicidae; Attini; Molecular phylogeny; Evolution; Fungus-growing ants |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2019 15:04 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2019 15:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/11120 |
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