TY - JOUR A1 - Arnold, Patrick A1 - Rutschmann, Sereina T1 - UCE sequencing-derived mitogenomes reveal the timing of mitochondrial replacement in Malagasy shrew tenrecs (Afrosoricida, Tenrecidae, Microgale) JF - Mammalian biology = Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde N2 - Malagasy shrew tenrecs (Microgale) have increasingly been used to study speciation genetics over the last years. A previous study recently uncovered gene flow between the Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec (M. soricoides) and sympatric southern population of the Pale shrew tenrec (M. fotsifotsy). This gene flow has been suggested to be accompanied by complete mitochondrial replacement in M. fotsifotsy. To explore the temporal framework of this replacement, we assembled mitogenomes from publicly available sequencing data of ultra-conserved elements. We were able to assemble complete and partial mitogenomes for 19 specimens from five species of shrew tenrecs, which represents a multifold increase in mitogenomic resources available for all tenrecs. Phylogenetic inferences and sequence simulations support the close relationship between the mitochondrial lineages of M. soricoides and the southern population of M. fotsifotsy. Based on the nuclear divergence of northern and southern populations of M. fotsifotsy and the mitochondrial divergence between the latter and M. soricoides, there was a mean time window for replacement of similar to 350,000 years. This timeframe implies that the effective size of the ancestral M. fotsifotsy southern population was less 70,000. KW - Microgale KW - Tenrecs KW - Gene flow KW - Mitochondrial replacement KW - Madagascar Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00246-2 SN - 1616-5047 SN - 1618-1476 VL - 102 IS - 2 SP - 531 EP - 536 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sroka, Pavel A1 - Godunko, Roman J. A1 - Rutschmann, Sereina A1 - Angeli, Kamila B. A1 - Salles, Frederico F. A1 - Gattolliat, Jean-Luc T1 - A new species of Bungona in Turkey (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) BT - an unexpected biogeographic pattern within a pantropical complex of mayflies JF - Zoosytematics and evolution N2 - By using an integrative approach, we describe a new species of mayfly, Bungona (Chopralla) pontica sp. n., from Turkey. The discovery of a representative of the tropical mayfly genus Bungona in the Middle East is rather unexpected. The new species shows all the main morphological characters of the subgenus Chopralla, which has its closest related species occurring in southeastern Asia. Barcoding clearly indicated that the new species represents an independent lineage isolated for a very long time from other members of the complex. The claw is equipped with two rows of three or four flattened denticles. This condition is a unique feature of Bungona (Chopralla) pontica sp. n. among West Palaearctic mayfly species. Within the subgenus Chopralla, the species can be identified by the presence of a simple, not bifid right prostheca (also present only in Bungona (Chopralla) liebenauae (Soldan, Braasch & Muu, 1987)), the shape of the labial palp, and the absence of protuberances on pronotum. KW - Biogeography KW - Cloeodes complex KW - Chopralla KW - integrative taxonomy KW - Middle East KW - new species Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.29487 SN - 1860-0743 VL - 95 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Pensoft Publ. CY - Sofia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rutschmann, Sereina A1 - Chen, Ping A1 - Zhou, Changfa A1 - Monaghan, Michael T. T1 - Three mitochondrial genomes of early-winged insects (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae and Leptophlebiidae) JF - Mitochondrial DNA Part B N2 - Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) are a semi-aquatic insect order with comparatively few genomic data available despite their phylogenetic position at the root of the winged-insects and possession of ancestral traits. Here, we provide three mitochondrial genomes (mtgenomes) from representatives of the two most species-rich families, Baetis rutilocylindratus and Cloeon dipterum (Baetidae), and Habrophlebiodes zijinensis (Leptophlebiidae). All mtgenomes had a complete set of 13 protein-coding genes and a conserved orientation except for two inverted tRNAs in H. zijinensis. Phylogenetic reconstructions using 21 mayfly mtgenomes and representatives of seven additional orders recovered both Baetidae and Leptophlebiidae as well supported monophyletic clades, with Ephemeroptera as the sister-taxon to all other winged insects (i.e. Odonata and Neoptera). KW - Baetis KW - Cloeon KW - Habrophlebiodes KW - mayfly KW - mitochondrial phylogeny Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1974966 SN - 2380-2359 VL - 6 IS - 10 SP - 2969 EP - 2971 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -