Application of COI sequences in studies of phylogenetic relationships among 40 Apionidae species
1Department of Botany and Mycology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka St., 20-033 Lublin, Poland
2Zoology Department, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 13 Akademicka St.; 20-033 Lublin, Poland
3Department of Genetics and Microbiology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka St., 20-033 Lublin,
Poland
Abstract
The systematics of the family Apionidae, as well as the superfamily Curculionoidea, is currently in a state of flux. The comparative analyses of COI sequences from our studies shed some light on the systematics of these weevils. To study the relationship among the organisms of the family Apionidae, we determined the COI sequences of representatives of 23 species and 15 genera, i.e., Apion, Betulapion, Catapion, Ceratapion, Cyanapion, Eutrichapion, Exapion, Hemitrichapion, Holotrichapion, Ischnopterapion, Protapion, Pseudoperapion, Psudoprotapion, Pseudostenapion, and Stenopterapion. Then, they were compared with the COI sequences of 19 species and eight genera from GenBank (Aspidapion, Ceratapion, Exapion, Ischnopterapion, Lepidapion, Omphalapion, Oxystoma, and Protapion). The phylogenetic relationships inferred from molecular data are similar to the classification system developed by Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999), with some exceptions within the tribe Oxystomatini, and genera Ceratapion and Exapion.
Keywords: systematics, phylogenetics, Insecta, Curculionoidea, weevils
Correspondence: a aneta.ptaszynska@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl, b jacek.letowski@up.lublin.pl, c sebastian.gnat@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl, d wanda@biotop.umcs.lublin.pl, *Corresponding author
Editor: David G. Heckel was Editor of this paper.
Received: 28 March 2011 | Accepted: 23 August 2011 | Published: 3 February 2012
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 12, Number 16
Ptaszyńska AA, Łętowski J, Gnat S, Małek W. 2012. Application of COI sequences in studies of phylogenetic relationships among 40 Apionidae species. Journal of Insect Science 12:16 available online: insectscience.org/12.16
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