Recent African derivation of Chrysomya putoria from C. chloropyga and mitochondrial DNA paraphyly of cytochrome oxidase subunit one in blowflies of forensic importance
| Autor: | N. Lunt, J. D. Wells, Martin H. Villet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Paraphyly
Mitochondrial DNA Molecular Sequence Data Zoology Locus (genetics) DNA Mitochondrial Chrysomya putoria Electron Transport Complex IV Evolution Molecular South Africa Animals Cytochrome c oxidase Phylogeny Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics General Veterinary biology Diptera Forensic Medicine biology.organism_classification Maximum parsimony Protein Subunits Chrysomya Haplotypes Evolutionary biology Insect Science Molecular phylogenetics biology.protein Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 18:445-448 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2915 0269-283X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0269-283x.2004.00531.x |
| Popis: | Chrysomya chloropyga (Wiedemann) and C. putoria (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are closely related Afrotropical blowflies that breed in carrion and latrines, reaching high density in association with humans and spreading to other continents. In some cases of human death, Chyrsomya specimens provide forensic clues. Because the immature stages of such flies are often difficult to identify taxonomically, it is useful to develop DNA-based tests for specimen identification. Therefore we attempted to distinguish between C. chloropyga and C. putoria using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data from a 593-bp region of the gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit one (COI). Twelve specimens from each species yielded a total of five haplotypes, none being unique to C. putoria. Therefore it was not possible to distinguish between the two species using this locus. Maximum parsimony analysis indicated paraphyletic C. chloropyga mtDNA with C. putoria nested therein. Based on these and previously published data, we infer that C. putoria diverged very recently from C. chloropyga. |
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