Resolving the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) requires objective statistical tests and exhaustive phylogenetic methodology: a response to Cai et al. (2020).
Resolving the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) requires objective statistical tests and exhaustive phylogenetic methodology: a response to Cai et al. (2020).
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106923
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发表时间：
2020-08
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Alexandros Vasilikopoulos;Grey T. Gustafson;M. Balke;O. Niehuis;R. Beutel;B. Misof
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作者：
Alexandros Vasilikopoulos;Grey T. Gustafson;M. Balke;O. Niehuis;R. Beutel;B. Misof
Cai等人（2020）（以下简称CEA）通过重新分析我们已经发表的一个基因组数据集（Vasilikopoulos等人，2019年）。经过修剪原来的超矩阵，以消除高变位点，并应用一个网站的异质性模型的系统发育重建，他们建议Dytisplaceae和Hygrobiidae之间的姐妹群关系。他们还得出结论，Dytiscoidea的骨架发育现在更有力地解决了。尽管在一些形态特征的研究中支持Dytismycae + Hygrobiidae的分支（例如，Beutel等人，2020年），我们不同意Hygrobiidae的系统发育位置得到了有力的解决。在这里，我们提供了我们的主张的理由，并指出了一些问题，在CEA的研究。
Cai et al.(2020)(hereafter CEA) investigated the phylogenetic position of the family Hygrobiidae by re-analyzing a phylogenomic data set that we had published (Vasilikopoulos et al., 2019). After trimming the original supermatrices to remove hypervariable sites and applying a site-heterogeneous model for phylogenetic reconstruction they suggested a sister group relationship between Dytiscidae and Hygrobiidae. They also concluded that the backbone phylogeny of Dytiscoidea is now more robustly resolved. Although a clade of Dytiscidae+ Hygrobiidae was supported in some studies of morphological characters (eg, Beutel et al., 2020), we disagree that the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae is robustly resolved. Here, we provide justification for our claims and point out some problems in the study of CEA.