Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Fish Dis, State Key Freshwater Ecol & Biotechnol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
WOS标题词:
Science & Technology
; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]:
Parasitology
研究领域[WOS]:
Parasitology
摘要:
The phylogenetic relationships among the Ergasilidae genera are poorly understood. In this study, 14 species from four genera in the Ergasilidae including Sinergasilus, Ergasilus, Pseudergasilus, and Paraergasilus were collected in China, and their phylogenetic relationships were examined using neighbor-joining, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference methods based on partial sequences of 18S and 28S ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid, respectively. All the analyses suggest that the Sinergasilus and Paraergasilus are both monophyletic, but the Ergasilus is polyphyletic rather than monophyletic. Considering the relationships among the four genera, the phylogenetic analyses and subsequent hypothesis tests all suggest that Pseudergasilus clustered with some Ergasilus species may have a closer relationship with Sinergasilus rather than with Paraergasilus. It is proposed that the Sinergasilus and the Pseudergasilus species might have evolved from Ergasilus species.
英文摘要:
The phylogenetic relationships among the Ergasilidae genera are poorly understood. In this study, 14 species from four genera in the Ergasilidae including Sinergasilus, Ergasilus, Pseudergasilus, and Paraergasilus were collected in China, and their phylogenetic relationships were examined using neighbor-joining, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference methods based on partial sequences of 18S and 28S ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid, respectively. All the analyses suggest that the Sinergasilus and Paraergasilus are both monophyletic, but the Ergasilus is polyphyletic rather than monophyletic. Considering the relationships among the four genera, the phylogenetic analyses and subsequent hypothesis tests all suggest that Pseudergasilus clustered with some Ergasilus species may have a closer relationship with Sinergasilus rather than with Paraergasilus. It is proposed that the Sinergasilus and the Pseudergasilus species might have evolved from Ergasilus species.
1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Fish Dis, State Key Freshwater Ecol & Biotechnol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
Recommended Citation:
Song, Y.; Wang, G. T.; Yao, W. J.; Gao, Q.; Nie, P..Phylogeny of freshwater parasitic copepods in the Ergasilidae (Copepoda : Poecilostomatoida) based on 18S and 28S rDNA sequences,PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH,2008,102(2):299-306
