Journal
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106686
Keywords
Insect; Phylogeny; Transcriptome; Gene family evolution; Neuropeptide; Blattodea
Funding
- German Research Foundation [PR766/11-1]
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Recent state-of-the-art analyses in insect phylogeny have exclusively used very large datasets to elucidate higher-level phylogenies. We have tested an alternative and novel approach by evaluating the potential phylogenetic signals of identified and relatively short neuropeptide precursor sequences with highly conserved functional units. For that purpose, we examined available transcriptomes of 40 blattodean species for the translated amino acid sequences of 17 neuropeptide precursors. Recently proposed infra-ordinal relationships of Blattodea, based on the analysis of 2370 protein-coding nuclear single-copy genes (Evangelista et al., 2019), were corroborated with maximum support. The functionally different precursor units were analyzed separately for their phylogenetic information. Although the degree of information was different in the different sequence motifs, all precursor units contained phylogenetic informative data at the ordinal level, and their separate analysis did not reveal contradictory topologies. This study is the first comprehensive exploitation of complete neuropeptide precursor sequences of arthropods in such a context and demonstrates the applicability of these rather short but conserved sequences for an alternative, fast and simple analysis of phylogenetic relationships.
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