TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogenetics of Planipapillus, lawn-headed onychophorans of the Australian alps, based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences
AU - Rockman, Matthew V.
AU - Rowell, David M.
AU - Tait, Noel N.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Stuart Dennis, Kathy Tsang, and Don Brom-head for help in the field, to Ginny Sargent and Alex Wilson for help in the lab, to Sue Doyle for SEM, and to Ross Parks for map and plate preparation. Paul Sunnucks, Ehab Abouheif, and Jim Balhoff provided helpful comments on a draft. This work was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and NSF predoctoral fellowship to M.V.R. and ARC funding to D.M.R.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We addressed phylogenetic relationships among species of Planipapillus, a clade of oviparous onychophorans from southeastern mainland Australia, to create a framework for understanding the evolution of the modified male head papillae used in mating in this clade. We sequenced fragments of two mitochondrial genes, COI and 12S rRNA, and a nuclear intron from the fushi tarazu gene, for individuals from 14 putative species of Planipapillus and six outgroups. We analyzed these data under both parsimony and likelihood criteria, incorporating heterogeneous parameter fitting guided by likelihood ratio tests. These analyses result in strong, congruent support for many clades. We infer multiple independent origins of spikes in Planipapillus male head structures.
AB - We addressed phylogenetic relationships among species of Planipapillus, a clade of oviparous onychophorans from southeastern mainland Australia, to create a framework for understanding the evolution of the modified male head papillae used in mating in this clade. We sequenced fragments of two mitochondrial genes, COI and 12S rRNA, and a nuclear intron from the fushi tarazu gene, for individuals from 14 putative species of Planipapillus and six outgroups. We analyzed these data under both parsimony and likelihood criteria, incorporating heterogeneous parameter fitting guided by likelihood ratio tests. These analyses result in strong, congruent support for many clades. We infer multiple independent origins of spikes in Planipapillus male head structures.
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U2 - 10.1006/mpev.2001.0990
DO - 10.1006/mpev.2001.0990
M3 - Article
C2 - 11603941
AN - SCOPUS:0034775422
SN - 1055-7903
VL - 21
SP - 103
EP - 116
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
IS - 1
ER -