RT Journal Article
T1 Strepsiptera, phylogenomics and the long branch attraction problem
A1 Boussau, Bastien
A1 Walton, Zaak
A1 Delgado, Juan A.
A1 Collantes, Francisco
A1 Beani, Laura
A1 Stewart, Isaac J.
A1 Cameron, Sydney A.
A1 Whitfield, James B.
A1 Johnston, J. Spencer
A1 Holland, Peter W.H.
A1 Bachtrog, Doris
A1 Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney
A1 Huelsenbeck, John P.
AB Insect phylogeny has recently been the focus of renewed interest as advances in sequencing techniques make it possible to rapidly generate large amounts of genomic or transcriptomic data for a species of interest. However, large numbers of markers are not sufficient to guarantee accurate phylogenetic reconstruction, and the choice of the model of sequence evolution as well as adequate taxonomic sampling are as important for phylogenomic studies as they are for single-gene phylogenies. Recently, the sequence of the genome of a strepsipteran has been published and used to place Strepsiptera as sister group to Coleoptera. However, this conclusion relied on a data set that did not include representatives of Neuropterida or of coleopteran lineages formerly proposed to be related to Strepsiptera. Furthermore, it did not use models that are robust against the long branch attraction artifact. Here we have sequenced the transcriptomes of seven key species to complete a data set comprising 36 species to study the higher level phylogeny of insects, with a particular focus on Neuropteroidea (Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, Neuropterida), especially on coleopteran taxa considered as potential close relatives of Strepsiptera. Using models robust against the long branch attraction artifact we find a highly resolved phylogeny that confirms the position of Strepsiptera as a sister group to Coleoptera, rather than as an internal clade of Coleoptera, and sheds new light onto the phylogeny of Neuropteroidea.
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2014
FD 2014-10-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35635
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35635
LA eng
NO Boussau B, Walton Z, Delgado JA, Collantes F, Beani L, et al. (2014) Strepsiptera, Phylogenomics and the Long Branch Attraction Problem. PLoS ONE 9(10): e107709. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107709
NO This research was supported by grants from the NSF (DEB-0445453) and NIH (GM-069801) awarded to J.P.H. and NIH (GM076007 and GM093182), and a Packard Fellowship awarded to D.B. B.B. was supported by a Human Frontier Science Program post-doctoral fellowship and the CNRS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
NO National Science Foundation (USA)
NO National Institute of Health (USA)
NO Human Frontier Science Program post-doctoral fellowship
NO Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, France)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 dic 2025