CiteULike

Delicious

Connotea

Citation for Study 14395

Citation title: "Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)".

Study name: "Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)".

This study is part of submission 14395 (Status: Published).

Citation

Sikes D.S., & Venables C. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, .

Authors

• Sikes D.S. (submitter) 907-474-6278
• Venables C.

Abstract

Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus) are well-known for their monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts and complex biparental care behaviors. They have been the focus of intense behavioral, ecological, and conservation research since the 1980s yet no thorough phylogenetic estimate for the group exists. Herein, we infer relationships, test past hypotheses of relationships, and test biogeographic scenarios among 55 of the subfamily Nicrophorinae's currently valid and extant 72 species. Two mitochondrial genes, COI and COII, and two nuclear genes, the D2 region of 28S, and the protein coding gene CAD, provided 3,971 nucleotides for 58 nicrophorine and 5 outgroup specimens. Ten partitions, with each modeled by GTR+I+G, were used for a 100M step MrBayes analysis and maximum likelihood bootstrapping with Garli. The inferred Bayesian phylogeny was mostly well-resolved with only three weak branches of biogeographic relevance. The common ancestor of the subfamily and of the genus Nicrophorus was reconstructed as Old World with four separate transitions to the New World and four reverse colonizations of the Old World from the New. Divergence dating from analysis with BEAST indicate the genus Nicrophorus originated in the Cretaceous, 127 ? 99 Ma. Most prior, pre-cladistic hypotheses of relationships were strongly rejected while most modern hypotheses were largely congruent with monophyletic groups in our estimated phylogeny. Our results reject a recent hypothesis that Nicrophorus morio Gebler, 1817 (NEW STATUS as valid species) is a subspecies of N. germanicus (L., 1758). Two subgenera of Nicrophorus are recognized: Necroxenus Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933, and Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775.

Keywords

Silphidae; Nicrophorinae; Nicrophorus; systematics; taxonomy; burying beetle

External links

About this resource

• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S14395
• Other versions: Nexus NeXML
• Show BibTeX reference

  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref22129,
  	 author = {Derek Scott Sikes and Chandra  Venables},
  	 title = {Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)},
  	 year = {2013},
  	 keywords = {Silphidae; Nicrophorinae; Nicrophorus; systematics; taxonomy; burying beetle},
  	 doi = {},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
  	 volume = {},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {},
  	 abstract = {Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus) are well-known for their monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts and complex biparental care behaviors. They have been the focus of intense behavioral, ecological, and conservation research since the 1980s yet no thorough phylogenetic estimate for the group exists. Herein, we infer relationships, test past hypotheses of relationships, and test biogeographic scenarios among 55 of the subfamily Nicrophorinae's currently valid and extant 72 species. Two mitochondrial genes, COI and COII, and two nuclear genes, the D2 region of 28S, and the protein coding gene CAD, provided 3,971 nucleotides for 58 nicrophorine and 5 outgroup specimens. Ten partitions, with each modeled by GTR+I+G, were used for a 100M step MrBayes analysis and maximum likelihood bootstrapping with Garli. The inferred Bayesian phylogeny was mostly well-resolved with only three weak branches of biogeographic relevance. The common ancestor of the subfamily and of the genus Nicrophorus was reconstructed as Old World with four separate transitions to the New World and four reverse colonizations of the Old World from the New. Divergence dating from analysis with BEAST indicate the genus Nicrophorus originated in the Cretaceous, 127 ? 99 Ma. Most prior, pre-cladistic hypotheses of relationships were strongly rejected while most modern hypotheses were largely congruent with monophyletic groups in our estimated phylogeny. Our results reject a recent hypothesis that Nicrophorus morio Gebler, 1817 (NEW STATUS as valid species) is a subspecies of N. germanicus (L., 1758). Two subgenera of Nicrophorus are recognized: Necroxenus Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933, and Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775.}
  }
  		

• Show RIS reference

  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 22129
  AU  - Sikes,Derek Scott
  AU  - Venables,Chandra 
  T1  - Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)
  PY  - 2013
  KW  - Silphidae; Nicrophorinae; Nicrophorus; systematics; taxonomy; burying beetle
  UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
  N2  - Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus) are well-known for their monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts and complex biparental care behaviors. They have been the focus of intense behavioral, ecological, and conservation research since the 1980s yet no thorough phylogenetic estimate for the group exists. Herein, we infer relationships, test past hypotheses of relationships, and test biogeographic scenarios among 55 of the subfamily Nicrophorinae's currently valid and extant 72 species. Two mitochondrial genes, COI and COII, and two nuclear genes, the D2 region of 28S, and the protein coding gene CAD, provided 3,971 nucleotides for 58 nicrophorine and 5 outgroup specimens. Ten partitions, with each modeled by GTR+I+G, were used for a 100M step MrBayes analysis and maximum likelihood bootstrapping with Garli. The inferred Bayesian phylogeny was mostly well-resolved with only three weak branches of biogeographic relevance. The common ancestor of the subfamily and of the genus Nicrophorus was reconstructed as Old World with four separate transitions to the New World and four reverse colonizations of the Old World from the New. Divergence dating from analysis with BEAST indicate the genus Nicrophorus originated in the Cretaceous, 127 ? 99 Ma. Most prior, pre-cladistic hypotheses of relationships were strongly rejected while most modern hypotheses were largely congruent with monophyletic groups in our estimated phylogeny. Our results reject a recent hypothesis that Nicrophorus morio Gebler, 1817 (NEW STATUS as valid species) is a subspecies of N. germanicus (L., 1758). Two subgenera of Nicrophorus are recognized: Necroxenus Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933, and Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775.
  L3  - 
  JF  - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  VL  - 
  IS  - 
  ER  -