Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815 is a speciose group of polychaetes that all inhabit calcareous tubes. The family was traditionally subdivided into Serpulinae, Filograninae, and Spirorbinae. Recent phylogenetic analyses have suggested both Filograninae Serpulinae are paraphyletic, though with limited sampling. Here we report the first analysis based on comprehensive sampling genera (though excluding...

Abstract We studied the polymorphism of cytb gene in two forms Lesser White-toothed Shrew species complex: Crocidura suaveolens s. stricto and C. sibirica . The haplotypes are found to be very similar those They do not belong a distinct haplogroup. molecular diversity populations Asian part range is higher than Eastern Europe. For combined sample from Asia Europe together, we revealed significa...

Abstract Background Bat-borne viruses are relatively host specific. We hypothesize that this specificity is due to coevolution of the with their hosts. To test hypothesis, we investigated coronavirus and paramyxovirus bat Published nucleotide sequences RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene 60 strains identified from 37 species, large (L) 36 29 cytochrome B ( cytB ) 35 species were analyzed f...

We describe a new species of the cricetid rodent Thomasomys (Sigmodontinae) "aureus" group based on four specimens collected from Carmen de la Frontera, Piura Department, Peru. This has very long and white tail, mystacial vibrissae that extend posteriorly beyond pinnae, distinctive cranial dental morphology differ any other known Thomasomys. It is also one largest Thomasomys, exceeded in size o...

We assessed taxonomic relationships among Turkish water frogs through estimation of phylogenetic relationships among 62 adult specimens from 44 distinct populations inhabiting seven main geographical regions of Turkey using 2897 bp sequences of the mitochondrial Cytb, 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes with equally-weighted parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian methods of inference. Monophyletic clade (...

Hesperiidae is one of the largest families of butterflies. Our knowledge of the higher systematics on hesperiids from China is still very limited. We infer the phylogenetic relationships of the subfamilies of Chinese skippers based on three mitochondrial genes (cytochrome b (Cytb), the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (ND1) and cytochrome oxidase I (COI)). In this study, 30 species in 23 genera wer...

The complete 16,515bp nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome was determined for the black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni (Perciformes: Embiotocidae). The black surfperch mitochondrial genome contains 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and the non-coding control region (D-loop), the gene order of which is identical to that observed in most vertebrate...

To date, three species of the genus Glischropus are recognized from the Indomalayan zoogeographic region-G. bucephalus from the Indochinese subregion, G. tylopus from the Sundaic subregion (Peninsular Thailand and Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Moluccas) and G. javanus, restricted to Java. The investigation of the holotype and three topotype specimens of G. batjanus supported the view that the name...