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Citation for Study 15010

About Citation title: "Cophylogenetic relationships between Anicetus parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and their scale insect hosts (Hemiptera: Coccoide) ".
About Study name: "Cophylogenetic relationships between Anicetus parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and their scale insect hosts (Hemiptera: Coccoide) ".
About This study is part of submission 15010 (Status: Published).

Citation

Deng J. 2013. Cophylogenetic relationships between Anicetus parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and their scale insect hosts (Hemiptera: Coccoide). BMC Evolutionary Biology, .

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  • Deng J. (submitter)

Abstract

Background The high diversification and host specialization observed in Anicetus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) species suggest that speciation and adaptive radiation took place along with the differentiation of scale insect hosts. Results To examine the degree of congruence between the phylogenies of nine Anicetus species and their scale insect hosts, we used DNA sequence data from mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (28S-D2) regions to reconstruct the phylogeny of Anicetus species, and analyzed the level of cophylogeny by using distance-based and tree-based methods. Conclusions Cophylogenetic analyses indicated a significant fit between trees using distance-based tests, but no significant cospeciation signal using tree-based tests, suggesting the presence of parasite sorting on related host species. Our results provide insight into the diversification process of Anicetus species parasitizing scale insects.

Keywords

host-parasitoid interactions; sorting; speciation; Mitochondrial DNA, nuclear 28S rDNA

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