Mitogenomes of the two historical species Seiraferrarii Parona, 1888 and Seirapallidipes Reuter, 1895 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae) with their phylogenetic placement within Seirinae

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro; Yun Bu; Daniel Winkler

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1176.108859

Mitogenomes of the two historical species Seiraferrarii Parona, 1888 and Seirapallidipes Reuter, 1895 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae) with their phylogenetic placement within Seirinae

Zookeys. 2023 Aug 24:1176:181-193. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1176.108859. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro¹, Yun Bu¹, Daniel Winkler²

Affiliations

¹ Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai, 200041, China Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum Shanghai China.
² University of Sopron, Faculty of Forestry, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Management, Bajcsy-Zs. str. 4, H-9400, Sopron, Hungary University of Sopron Budapest Hungary.

Abstract

The present paper reports the first occurrence of Seiraferrarii Parona, 1888 from Hungary. On this occasion, molecular analyses were performed on both S.ferrarii and another historical species of the genus, S.pallidipes Reuter, 1895, originally described from Hungary. Using low-coverage whole-genome sequencing, the complete mitogenomes were assembled and annotated using MitoZ. To test the phylogenetic placement of both species, we performed maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses using a matrix containing 14 Seirinae species and two outgroups. Both resultant trees showed that the European populations of the sampled Seira spp. likely derive from ancestral branches of Seirinae, compared to the Asian and American populations. Our results put in question the monophyly of the genus Seira, as already observed in previous studies.

Keywords: Entomobryoidea; Europe; Hungary; gene order; mitochondrial genomes; phylogeny; springtails.

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro, Yun Bu, Daniel Winkler.