Ddc and amd sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships of Drosophila.
Ddc and amd sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships of Drosophila.
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DOI:
10.1006/mpev.2001.0967
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发表时间:
2001-08
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
A. Tatarenkov;M. Žurovcová;F. Ayala
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作者:
A. Tatarenkov;M. Žurovcová;F. Ayala
With about 3000 species, the family Drosophilidae is large and diverse even by Dipteran standards. This diversity provides biologists with distinctive opportunities to investigate evolutionary patterns, but also poses taxonomic and other challenges. Thus, the traditional classification (eg, Wheeler, 1981) is inconsistent with phylogenetic relationships based on morphology (Throckmorton, 1975; Grimaldi, 1990) or molecular data (review in Powell, 1997). The two comprehensive phylogenetic hypotheses of Throckmorton (1975) and Grimaldi (1990) have been tested against recent molecular studies, which have resolved some important discrepancies between them (see Remsen and DeSalle, 1998; Tatarenkov et al., 1999a; Kwiatowski and Ayala, 1999; Katoh et al., 2000). Yet, many phylogenetic relationships remain unsolved, such as those among Hirtodrosophila, Zaprionus, Dorsilopha, and sg Drosophila (eg, Tatarenkov et al., 1999a; Kwiatowski and Ayala, 1999). Some genera, such as Liodrosophila and Samoaia, have received scarce attention (Pélandakis and Solignac, 1993; Tamura et al., 1995; Tatarenkov et al., 1999a) and their phylogenetic placement remains largely unknown. One problem with the molecular phylogenies is the incompleteness of taxa sampling. Although representatives of some Drosophila groups have been included together in some studies, often different studies include different groups, which prevents construction of a reliable higher-level phylogenetic framework.We seek to define a robust framework of relationships in the Drosophilidae at the species-group and higher taxonomic levels. We have investigated 29 species (Table 1) from several drosophilid genera and subgenera and from representative species groups for two nuclear genes, dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) and-methyl dopa (amd). These are closely linked paralogous genes, arisen by an ancient gene duplication (Eveleth and Marsh, 1986; Tatarenkov et al., 1999b). We earlier used Ddc to address some issues of Drosophila systematics (Tatarenkov et al., 1999a). We now extend our previous investigation by including additional taxa for longer sequences of Ddc and a new gene, amd, which previously had been sequenced only in D. melanogaster