Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-24-2021
Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract
The vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster is a pivotal model for invertebrate development, genetics, physiology, neuroscience, and disease. The whole family Drosophilidae, which contains over 4000 species, offers a plethora of cases for comparative and evolutionary studies. Despite a long history of phylogenetic inference, many relationships remain unresolved among the groups and genera in the Drosophilidae. To clarify these relationships, we first developed a set of new genomic markers and assembled a multilocus data set of 17 genes from 704 species of Drosophilidae. We then inferred well-supported group and species trees for this family. Additionally, we were able to determine the phylogenetic position of some previously unplaced species. These results establish a new framework for investigating the evolution of traits in fruit flies, as well as valuable resources for systematics.
Supporting Data
Data for this paper:
Finet, Cédric. (2021). DrosoPhyla [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091961
Publication Title
bioRxiv
Recommended Citation
Finet, C.,
Kassner, V. A.,
Carvalho, A. B.,
Chung, H.,
Raja, K. K.,
Werner, T.,
&
et. al.
(2021).
DrosoPhyla: genomic resources for drosophilid phylogeny and systematics.
bioRxiv.
http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.23.436709
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/14961
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