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New data, same story: phylogenomics does not support Syrphoidea (Diptera: Syrphidae, Pipunculidae)
Author(s) -
PAULI THOMAS,
BURT TREVOR O.,
MEUSEMANN KAREN,
BAYLESS KEITH,
DONATH ALEXANDER,
PODSIADLOWSKI LARS,
MAYER CHRISTOPH,
KOZLOV ALEXEY,
VASILIKOPOULOS ALEXANDROS,
LIU SHANLIN,
ZHOU XIN,
YEATES DAVID,
MISOF BERNHARD,
PETERS RALPH S.,
MENGUAL XIMO
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/syen.12283
Subject(s) - biology , phylogenomics , zoology , evolutionary biology , phylogenetics , clade , genetics , gene
Abstract The Syrphoidea (families Pipunculidae and Syrphidae) has been suggested to be the sister group of the Schizophora, the largest species radiation of true flies. A major challenge in dipterology is inferring the phylogenetic relationship between Syrphoidea and Schizophora in order to understand the evolutionary history of flies. Using newly sequenced transcriptomic data of Syrphidae, Pipunculidae and closely related lineages, we were able to fully resolve phylogenetic relationships of Syrphoidea using a supermatrix approach with more than 1 million amino acid positions derived from 3145 genes, including 19 taxa across nine families. Platypezoidea were inferred as a sister group to Eumuscomorpha, which was recovered monophyletic. While Syrphidae were also found to be monophyletic, the superfamily Syrphoidea was not recovered as a monophyletic group, as Pipunculidae were inferred as sister group to Schizophora. Within Syrphidae, the subfamily Microdontinae was resolved as sister group to the remaining taxa, Syrphinae and Pipizinae were placed as sister groups, and the monophyly of Eristalinae was not recovered. Although our results are consistent with previously established hypotheses on Eumuscomorphan evolution, our approach is new to dipteran phylogeny, using larger‐scale transcriptomic data for the first time for this insect group.