Molecular phylogeny of the Anopheles hyrcanus group (Diptera: Culicidae) based on rDNA-ITS2 and mtDNA-COII.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Anopheles hyrcanus group, which includes 25 species, is widely distributed in the Oriental and Palaearctic regions. Given the difficulty in identifying cryptic or sibling species based on their morphological characteristics, molecular identification is regarded as an important complementary approach to traditional morphological taxonomy. The aim of this study was to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Hyrcanus group using DNA barcoding markers in order to determine the phylogenetic correlations of closely related taxa and to compare these markers in terms of identification efficiency and genetic divergence among species.

Methods

Based on data extracted from the GenBank database and data from the present study, we used 399 rDNA-ITS2 sequences of 19 species and 392

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420049 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature