The Anopheles genus is probably one of the best studied genera among insects of medical importance. Of more than 500 species currently listed in the world about sixty species are vectors of malaria agents and about thirty species are responsible for most of the transmission [1-3]. The important epidemiological role of anopheline species has motivated many studies of taxonomy and systematics wit...

Molecular phylogenetics relies on accurate identification of orthologous sequences among the taxa of interest. Most orthology inference programs available for use in phylogenomics rely on small sets of pre-defined orthologs from model organisms or phenetic approaches such as all-versus-all sequence comparisons followed by Markov graph-based clustering. Such approaches have high sensitivity but ...

Elucidating the evolution of Phlebotominae is important not only to revise their taxonomy, but also to help understand the origin of the genus Leishmania and its relationship with humans. Our study is a phenetic portrayal of this history based on the genetic relationships among some New Word and Old Word taxa. We used both multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and morphometry on 24 male specimens o...

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menentukan variasi morfologis dan anatomis tiap aksesi Curcuma longa, serta hubungan fenetik pada spesies antar longa. Sebanyak 13 sampel diambil di area Yogyakarta sekitarnya, karakter yang dibandingkan bersumber dari akar, rimpang, daun meliputi bentuk ukuran. Karakter diamati rimpang. Penentuan berdasarkan Protection of Plant Varieties Farmers’ Rights Authority. ...

Based on 270 specimens from 7 populations of Lacerta alpina, L. caucasica, L. daghestanica and L. praticola, morphological relationships between the four species were studied for 7 meristic characters and 5 morphometric characters, using canonical variate analysis. In both scalation and morphometry, the contours and centroids of the studied populations form a trend: L. praticola – L. caucasica ...

The validity of taxa around Trichophyton rubrum was evaluated by a combination of phenetic and molecular methods. Morphological and physiological features were compared to results of sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal operon, PCR fingerprinting, and amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis. The 15 species and varieties investigated (Trichophyton circonv...

Athyrium nigripes is a highly variable species described and recorded mostly from Java few surrounding islands. There are different arguments on its delimitation hence extent of distribution. We attempted to elucidate disagreement four related Java: nigripes, Aspidium costale, At. pulcherrimum nitidulum with phenetic approach. The analysis formed clusters; cluster I consist the large sized incl...