Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Andrew V. Z. Brower¹  Kelly M. Dexter²  Masaya Yago³  Chandra Earl⁴  Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint⁵  Jesse W. Breinholt⁶  Andrew D. Warren⁷ 

[1]Arthropoda Department, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

[2]Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, USA

[3]Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

[4]Evolution and Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USA

[5]Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Florida, USA

[6]Gainesville, USA

[7]The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

关键词: Anchored hybrid enrichment;    Butterfly phylogenomics;    Coalescent multi-species;    Hesperiidae;    Lepidoptera;    Maximum likelihood;    Molecular systematics;    Papilionoidea;    Parsimony;    Target capture;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: BioMed Central

【 摘 要 】

Butterflies (Papilionoidea) are perhaps the most charismatic insect lineage, yet phylogenetic relationships among them remain incompletely studied and controversial. This is especially true for skippers (Hesperiidae), one of the most species-rich and poorly studied butterfly families. To infer a robust phylogenomic hypothesis for Hesperiidae, we sequenced nearly 400 loci using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment and sampled all tribes and more than 120 genera of skippers. Molecular datasets were analyzed using maximum-likelihood, parsimony and coalescent multi-species phylogenetic methods. All analyses converged on a novel, robust phylogenetic hypothesis for skippers. Different optimality criteria and methodologies recovered almost identical phylogenetic trees with strong nodal support at nearly all nodes and all taxonomic levels. Our results support Coeliadinae as the sister group to the remaining skippers, the monotypic Euschemoninae as the sister group to all other subfamilies but Coeliadinae, and the monophyly of Eudaminae plus Pyrginae. Within Pyrginae, Celaenorrhinini and Tagiadini are sister groups, the Neotropical firetips, Pyrrhopygini, are sister to all other tribes but Celaenorrhinini and Tagiadini. Achlyodini is recovered as the sister group to Carcharodini, and Erynnini as sister group to Pyrgini. Within the grass skippers (Hesperiinae), there is strong support for the monophyly of Aeromachini plus remaining Hesperiinae. The giant skippers (Agathymus and Megathymus) once classified as a subfamily, are recovered as monophyletic with strong support, but are deeply nested within Hesperiinae. Anchored Hybrid Enrichment sequencing resulted in a large amount of data that built the foundation for a new, robust evolutionary tree of skippers. The newly inferred phylogenetic tree resolves long-standing systematic issues and changes our understanding of the skipper tree of life. These resultsenhance understanding of the evolution of one of the most species-rich butterfly families.

【 授权许可】

CC BY