Journal
BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-153
Keywords
Lepidoptera; Intragenomic variation; Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling; Phylogeny; DNA barcoding
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [BSR 9024770, DEB 9306296, 9400829, 9705072, 0072730, 0515699]
- Wege Foundation
- International Conservation Fund of Canada
- Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust
- Blue Moon Fund
- Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
- Permian Global
- University of Pennsylvania
- Government of Canada through Genome Canada
- Ontario Genomics Institute through the Biomonitoring 2.0 project [OGI-050]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
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Background: Skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) are a relatively well-studied family of Lepidoptera. However, a combination of DNA barcodes, morphology, and natural history data has revealed several cryptic species complexes within them. Here, we investigate three DNA barcode lineages of what has been identified as Urbanus belli (Hesperiidae, Eudaminae) in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. Results: Although no morphological traits appear to distinguish among the three, congruent nuclear and mitochondrial lineage patterns show that Urbanus belli in ACG is a complex of three sympatric species. A single strain of Wolbachia present in two of the three cryptic species indicates that Urbanus segnestami Burns (formerly Urbanus belliDHJ01), Urbanus bernikerni Burns (formerly Urbanus belliDHJ02), and Urbanus ehakernae Burns (formerly Urbanus belliDHJ03) may be biologically separated by Wolbachia, as well as by their genetics. Use of parallel sequencing through 454-pyrosequencing improved the utility of ITS2 as a phylogenetic marker and permitted examination of the intra-and interlineage relationships of ITS2 variants within the species complex. Interlineage, intralineage and intragenomic compensatory base pair changes were discovered in the secondary structure of ITS2. Conclusion: These findings corroborate the existence of three cryptic species. Our confirmation of a novel cryptic species complex, initially suggested by DNA barcode lineages, argues for using a multi-marker approach coupled with next-generation sequencing for exploration of other suspected species complexes.
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