Abstract Two of the largest subfamilies Crambidae, Pyraustinae and Spilomelinae, have 341 species recorded in Japan, but their natural relationships are poorly understood. We reconstructed a molecular phylogeny based on one mitochondrial (COI) three nuclear genes (CAD, EF1-α, RpS5) for 129 69 genera Spilomelinae 62 27 from Japan. The concatenated data was analyzed by maximum likelihood Bayesian...

There are roughly 120 species of the Anona genus, which is found in tropical and subtropical areas. The diversity at level similarity leaves, fruits, stems that produced as a result plant cultivation hybridization create new plants difficult to macroscopically identify. genus can be accurately determined using molecular identification. For example, genetic analysis utilizing PCR RAPD AFLP proce...

We present a preliminary overview of our molecular phylogenetics research on the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. The molecular data consists of 28S ribosomal DNA sequences (mainly D2 and D3 expansion regions) for over 600 taxa and 18S ribosomal DNA sequences (mainly E17 to E35 expansion regions) for over 150 representative taxa within the lineages sampled. Based on our preliminary molecular phylogen...

As a discipline, phylogenetics is becoming transformed by a flood of molecular data. These data allow broad questions to be asked about the history of life, but also present difficult statistical and computational problems. Bayesian inference of phylogeny brings a new perspective to a number of outstanding issues in evolutionary biology, including the analysis of large phylogenetic trees and co...