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A molecular analysis of Sciomyzidae (Diptera).
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The Sciomyzidae as a family of Acalyptrata includes 540 species in 61 genera distributed all over the main biogeographical regions. The monophyly of Sciomyzidae is based primarily on the malacophagy (though some recently discovered larvae attack also aquatic Oligochaeta).The Phaeomyiidae (treated originally as a subfamily of Sciomyzidae) is considered as a sister-group of Sciomyzidae along with 9 families treated recently in the Sciomyzoidea, members of Coelopidae, Dryomyzidae, Helcomyzidae, Heterocheilidae and Huttoninidae were analyzed.and used as outgroups. In this study, we tried to reconstruct the intrafamiliar relationships based on 7 gene markers (5 mitochondrial, 2 nuclear). The resulting alignment contained 8234 bp of 60 analysed species and the resulting tree enables a basic discussion on relationships among the examined taxa. The suitability of the outgroup families was proved. This study was supported by the grant of the Ministry of Education of CR No. MSM 0021622416. |
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