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SUBMITTER: Suchackova Bartonova A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7862691 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sucháčková Bartoňová Alena A Konvička Martin M Marešová Jana J Wiemers Martin M Ignatev Nikolai N Wahlberg Niklas N Schmitt Thomas T Faltýnek Fric Zdeněk Z
Scientific reports 20210204 1
The bacterium Wolbachia infects many insect species and spreads by diverse vertical and horizontal means. As co-inherited organisms, these bacteria often cause problems in mitochondrial phylogeny inference. The phylogenetic relationships of many closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) are ambiguous. We considered the patterns of Wolbachia infection and mitochondrial diversity in two systems: Aricia agestis/Aricia artaxerxes and the Pseudophilotes bat ...[more]