Publications by authors named "Manuel Antunes Junior"
Phylogenomic analysis of Tachinidae (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea): a transcriptomic approach to understanding the subfamily relationships.
Letícia Chiara Baldassio de Paula Rodrigo de Vilhena Perez Dios Filipe Macedo Gudin Marcelo Domingos de Santis Deivys Moises Alvarez-Garcia
Cladistics
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- Tachinidae is a diverse family of flies (Diptera) with a parasitoid lifestyle, comprised of four subfamilies and analyzed for the first time using phylogenomic data from 30 species.
- The study utilized various datasets to construct phylogenetic trees, finding strong support for the relationships among subfamilies and confirming Polleniidae as closely related to Tachinidae.
- Key findings showed the monophyly of Phasiinae, Dexiinae, and Exoristinae, while Tachininae was determined to be polyphyletic, suggesting complexities in evolutionary relationships among these groups.
Gonyleptidae is the second most diverse harvestmen family and the most studied in terms of morphology, behaviour, and ecology. Despite this, few phylogenetic studies have focused on gonyleptids, and those are based on a very limited number of taxa. We addressed this gap by constructing a phylogenetic hypothesis of the family using 101 taxa from all 16 gonyleptid subfamilies and four mitochondrial and nuclear loci (COI, 28S rRNA, 12S rRNA, and 16S rRNA).
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