The (non) accuracy of mitochondrial genomes for family-level phylogenetics in Erebidae (Lepidoptera)

Hamid Reza Ghanavi; Victoria Twort; Tobias Joannes Hartman; Reza Zahiri; Niklas Wahlberg

doi:10.1111/zsc.12559

The (non) accuracy of mitochondrial genomes for family-level phylogenetics in Erebidae (Lepidoptera)

Hamid Reza Ghanavi, Victoria Twort, Tobias Joannes Hartman, Reza Zahiri, Niklas Wahlberg

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Abstract

The use of molecular data to study the evolutionary history of organisms has revolutionized the field of systematics. Now with the appearance of high throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies, more and more genetic sequence data are available. One of the important sources of genetic data for phylogenetic analyses has been mitochondrial DNA. The limitations of mitochondrial DNA for the study of phylogenetic relationships have been thoroughly explored in the age of single locus phylogenetic studies. Now with the appearance of genomic scale data, increasing number of mitochondrial genomes are available, leading to an increasing number of mitophylogenomic studies. Here, we assemble 47 mitochondrial genomes using whole genome Illumina short reads from representatives of the family Erebidae (Lepidoptera), in order to evaluate the accuracy of mitochondrial genome application in resolving deep phylogenetic relationships. We find that mitogenomes are inadequate for resolving subfamily-level relationships in Erebidae, but given good taxon sampling, we see its potential in resolving lower level phylogenetic relationships.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	695-707
Number of pages	13
Journal	Zoologica Scripta
Volume	51
Issue number	6
Early online date	2022 Aug 8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12559
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Funding Information:
HG received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skldowska‐Curie grant agreement No. 6422141. NW acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council (Grant No. 2015‐04441). We thank Marko Mutanen for sending us the DNA extract for . Voucher specimens of many species are deposited in the Biological Museum, Lund University ( 10.15468/dahk2a ). Scoliopteryx libatrix

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© 2022 The Authors. Zoologica Scripta published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Biological Systematics
Evolutionary Biology

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Erebidae
Lepidoptera
mitochondrial genome
old DNA extract
phylogenomics

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The (non) accuracy of mitochondrial genomes for family-level phylogenetics in Erebidae (Lepidoptera)

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