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DNA barcoding of Afrotropical nose flies (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Rhiniinae): species identification, female-male morphotype association, and reference library development.
Arianna Thomas-Cabianca, Kurt Jordaens, Eliana Buenaventura, Arn Rytter-Jensen, Anabel Martínez-Sánchez, Georg Goergen, Santos Rojo, Pierfilippo Cerretti, Thomas Pape
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Arianna Thomas-CabiancaSenckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Dresden, Germany Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Biology and JEMU Tervuren Belgium https://ror.org/001805t51.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-6222 Kurt JordaensRoyal Museum for Central Africa, Department of Biology and JEMU, Tervuren, Belgium Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy https://ror.org/02be6w209.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4321-5944 Eliana BuenaventuraRigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark https://ror.org/035b05819.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-815X Arn Rytter-JensenNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre Cotonou Benin https://ror.org/0556kt608.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3056-7273 Anabel Martínez-SánchezDepartment of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden Dresden Germany https://ror.org/016xad343.
Georg GoergenInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre, Cotonou, Benin Department of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, University of Alicante Alicante Spain https://ror.org/05t8bcz72.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-0495 Santos RojoDepartment of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden Dresden Germany https://ror.org/016xad343.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-9643 Pierfilippo CerrettiDepartment of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen Denmark https://ror.org/05bpbnx46.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-3352 Thomas PapeNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Biodiversity Centre Cotonou Benin https://ror.org/0556kt608.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6609-0609 Funding
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DNA barcoding offers a practical approach to species identification, especially in morphologically complex taxa such as Rhiniinae (Diptera, Calliphoridae). The most extensive COI barcode dataset for the subfamily to date was assembled, combining 216 newly generated sequences with more than 1,150 publicly available records from BOLD Systems and GenBank, with emphasis on Afrotropical taxa. Distance-based analyses, Neighbour-Joining (NJ) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) clustering, were evaluated, as well as automated barcode clustering approaches (ABGD and ASAP), for identifying morphospecies within this group. These analyses recognized 79 putative Afrotropical species, with most morphospecies forming well-supported barcode clusters congruent with morphological identifications. Several lineages, however, including species of
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COI reference libraryCytochrome c oxidase Imitochondrial geneRhiniinessex linkage
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