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A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the family Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera): an exploration of combined targeted enrichment data and legacy sequence data

  • Robin E. Thoms
  • , Paul B. Frandsen
  • , Ralph W. Holzenthal

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Abstract

Hydroptilidae is an extremely diverse family within Trichoptera, containing over 2,600 known species, that displays a wide array of ecological, morphological, and habitat diversity. However, exploration into the evolutionary history of microcaddisflies based on current phylogenetic methods is mostly lacking. The purpose of this study is to provide a proof-of-concept that the use of molecular data, particularly targeted enrichment data, and statistically supported methods of analysis can result in the construction of a stable phylogenetic framework for the microcaddisflies. Here, a preliminary exploration of the hydroptilid phylogeny is presented using a combination of targeted enrichment data for ca. 300 nuclear protein-coding genes and legacy (Sanger-based) sequence data for the mitochondrial COI gene and partial sequence from the 28S rRNA gene.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)467-488
Number of pages22
JournalZooKeys
Volume2022
Issue number1111
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Financial support was awarded by the National Science Foundation (DEB 0816865 to Kjer and Holzenthal), the Committee on Institutional Cooperation/Smithsonian Institution: Pre-doctoral Fellowship (to Thomson), and the University of Minnesota Graduate School (Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to Thomson). This work was also supported by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station project MIN-17-094.

Publisher Copyright:
© Robin E.Thomson et al.

Keywords

  • Caddisfly
  • diversity
  • molecular dataset
  • systematic

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