Adding a new piece to the puzzle of Cosmocercidae evolutionary relationships: genetic characterization of Aplectana pella parasitic in Osteocephalus cabrerai from Amazon Region by Jorge Kevin Silva Neves, Gabriel Lima Rebêlo, Adriano José Silva Félix, Scott Lyell Gardner, Arnaldo Maldonado Júnior, Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos, Francisco Tiago Vasconcelos Melo

“…We found that our sequences clustered with species of Cosmocerca, reinforcing the hypothesis that representatives of the genus Aplectana do not form a monophyletic group.…”
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Molecular systematics of Keratinophyton: the inclusion of species formerly referred to Chrysosporium and description of four new species by Roman Labuda, Andreas Bernreiter, Doris Hochenauer, Alena Kubátová, Hazal Kandemir, Christoph Schüller

“…Ten new combinations are proposed for Chrysosporium species which are resolved in the monophyletic Keratinophyton clade. A new key to the recognized species is provided herein.…”
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Molecular phylogeny and comparative chloroplast genome analysis of the type species Crucigenia quadrata by Ting Wang, Huan Feng, Huan Zhu, Bojian Zhong

“…The Bayesian and maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees support a monophyletic group of C. quadrata and Scenedesmaceae (Chlorophyceae) species. …”
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Identification of a novel papillomavirus in oral swabs from giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) by Yi Zhao, Min Zhao, Wen Zhang

“…Phylogenetic analysis indicated that AmPV5 fell within the Lambdapapillomavirus genus but formed a monophyletic branch away from other papillomaviruses found in Ailuropoda melanoleuca, Canis, Felis catus, Panthera uncia, Enhydra lutris, and Procyon lotor. …”
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The inclusion of downy mildews in a multi-locus-dataset and its reanalysis reveals a high degree of paraphyly in Phytophthora by F. Runge, S. Telle, S. Ploch, E. Savory, B. Day, R. Sharma, M. Thines

“…Here we present a molecular phylogeny encompassing all clades of Phytophthora as represented in a multi-locus dataset and two representatives of the monophyletic downy mildews from divergent genera. Our results demonstrate that Phytophthora is at least six times paraphyletic with respect to the downy mildews. …”
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Characterization of the complete plastid genome of Clivia mirabilis (Amaryllidaceae) by Ling Yue, Xiu-Li Feng, Dan Li, Hai-Hong Wu, Jing Meng, Xing-Hua Zhao

“…Our phylogenetic analysis showed that C. mirabilis formed a monophyletic clade with the other sampled species of Clivia, falling into the Amaryllidoideae clade. …”
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The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature by D.L. Hawksworth, P.W. Crous, S.A. Redhead, D.R. Reynolds, R.A. Samson, K.A. Seifert, J.W. Taylor, M.J. Wingfield

“…That is, meaning that priority should be given to the first described name, except where that is a younger name in general use when the first author to select a name of a pleomorphic monophyletic genus is to be followed, and suggests controversial cases are referred to a body, such as the ICTF, which will report to the Committee for Fungi. …”
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Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of the chloroplast genomes of mangrove plants by Jigui Yuan, Wei Gu, Haijie Yang, Mei Wang

“…Moreover, phylogenetic analysis based on chloroplast genome data clearly revealed that neither true mangrove plants nor semi-mangrove plants were monophyletic. These results revealed that chloroplast genomes will be useful to help understand the genetic differentiation and phylogenetic relationships of mangrove plants, which could assist in the genetic management, conservation, and restoration of mangrove ecosystems.…”
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Phylogeny of Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) from Peru based on mitochondrial and nuclear data reveals a species complex comprising M. digueti (Bouvier, 1895) and M. tra... by Eliana Zelada-Mázmela, Lorenzo E. Reyes-Flores, Luis De Stefano-Beltrán

“…Our analyses also corroborated the genetic proximity of sibling species M. inca–M. americanum and M. gallus–M. panamense, and the monophyletic origin of Macrobrachium species from Peruvian populations. …”
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The first complete mitochondrial genome of Sumatran striped rabbit Nesolagus netscheri (Schlegel, 1880), and its phylogenetic relationship with other Leporidae by Dwi Sendi Priyono, Nayla Rafina, Tuty Arisuryanti, Indra Lesmana, Indra Yustian, Arum Setiawan

“…The phylogenetic analysis shows Leporidae was monophyletic, with Nesolagus at the basal. The study indicates a split between N. netscheri and N. timminsi in the Late Pleistocene around 0.43 million years ago. …”
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New banded Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the Madeira River basin, Brazil, and redescription of L. bleheri, based on integrative taxonomy by Mariana Pascoal Boaretto, Willian Massaharu Ohara, Lenice Souza-Shibatta, José Luís Olivan Birindelli

“…The multi-loci analysis corroborated the sister-group relationships between both species, including them within the Leporinus fasciatus group, which was recovered as non monophyletic.…”
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Comparison of qPCR protocols for quantification of "Candidatus Saccharibacteria", belonging to the Candidate Phyla Radiation, suggests that 23S rRNA is a better target than 16S rRN... by Stella Papaleo, Riccardo Nodari, Lodovico Sterzi, Enza D'Auria, Camilla Cattaneo, Giorgia Bettoni, Clara Bonaiti, Ella Pagliarini, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Simona Panelli, Francesco Comandatore

“…<h4>Background</h4>Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) is a large monophyletic group encompassing about 25% of bacterial diversity. …”
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A New ‘<i>cyclotis</i>-morphotype’ Species of Tube-Nosed Bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: <i>Murina</i>) from China by Xin Mou, Yishun Qian, Wen Wang, Wenxiang Zhang, Jianjie Wang, Song Li

“…Morphologically, these specimens can be distinguished from <i>M. pluvialis</i> and other congeneric species based on a combination of body size, hair distribution, fur colour, and skull and teeth characteristics; molecularly, an analysis of Cyt <i>b</i> and COI gene sequences showed that these specimens form a monophyletic group with <i>M. pluvialis</i> with high posterior probability and bootstrap support values. …”
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Insights into stem Batomorphii: A new holomorphic ray (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the upper Jurassic of Germany. by Julia Türtscher, Patrick L Jambura, Frederik Spindler, Jürgen Kriwet

“…The phylogenetic analysis reveals all Late Jurassic batomorphs to represent a monophyletic group, for which we introduce the new order Apolithabatiformes, which is sister to all other batomorphs representing a stem group. …”
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Species diversity in the new lamprey genus Occidentis, formerly classified as western North American 'Lampetra'. by Kellie J Carim, Grace Auringer, Margaret F Docker, Claude B Renaud, Benjamin J Clemens, Monica R Blanchard, Christina Parker, Michael K Young

“…Similar to previous studies, O. ayresii and O. richardsoni were not reciprocally monophyletic and are best categorized as life history variants of a single species. …”
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Genome-scale data resolve ancestral rock-inhabiting lifestyle in Dothideomycetes (Ascomycota) by Claudio G. Ametrano, Felix Grewe, Pedro W. Crous, Stephen B. Goodwin, Chen Liang, Laura Selbmann, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Steven D. Leavitt, Lucia Muggia

“…In addition, many of the major lineages within Dothideomycetes are recovered as monophyletic, and the phylogenomic approach implemented strongly supports their relationships. …”
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Morphological Diversity of Gracilaria blodgettii Harvey 1853 (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta) from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo by Ruhana Hassan, Muhammad Nur Arif Othman, Mohd Nasarudin Harith, Amir Shah Ruddin Md Sah

“…In the phylogenetic trees, all samples in this study group together with other G. blodgettii have high bootstrap values; thus, this species is monophyletic. This study implies that species identification of Gracilaria and other seagrass taxa which have a phenotypic plasticity problem should include the CO1-5P gene analysis as it is a reliable gene marker for species diversity assessment.…”
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Genetic diversity of the earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi (Lumbricidae, Annelida) by S. V. Shekhovtsov, D. I. Berman, E. V. Golovanova, S. E. Peltek

“…Subspecies E. n. nordenskioldi and E. n. pallida are most probably non-monophyletic, and the pigmentation character is labile and possibly independently evolved in different lineages. …”
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Study of Mitogenomes Provides Implications for the Phylogenetics and Evolution of the Infraorder Muscomorpha in Diptera by Huan Yuan, Wenbo Fu, Shulin He, Tingjing Li, Bin Chen

“…The phylogenetic topologies demonstrated that the robustness of Muscomorpha and major clades within Muscomorpha are monophyletic: Cyclorrhapha, Schizophora, and Calyptratae. …”
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Taxonomic assessment of the Oxytropis species from South-East of Kazakhstan by S. Almerekova, S. Abugalieva, N. Mukhitdinov

“…In this study phylogenetic NJ tree and MJ network based on the variation of ITS sequences confirmed the monophyletic origin of the genus. The ITS haplotype network suggested that O. glabra is very diverse species and possibly played important role in the evolutionary processes of the genus in Central Asian region. …”
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