Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

Cai, Chenyang; Tihelka, Erik; Giacomelli, Mattia; Lawrence, John F.; Ślipiński, Adam; Kundrata, Robin; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Gimmel, Matthew L.; Lü, Liang; Engel, Michael S.; Bouchard, Patrice; Huang, Diying; Pisani, Davide; Donoghue, Philip C. J.

doi:10.1098/rsos.211771

articleRoyal Society Open ScienceMar 1, 2022GOLD OA

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

CCChenyang Cai ETErik Tihelka MGMattia Giacomelli JFJohn F. Lawrence AŚAdam Ślipiński

Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Bristol · +12 more institutions

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Abstract

Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived at considerably incongruent topologies and widely varying estimates of divergence dates for major beetle clades. Here, we use a dataset of 68 single-copy nuclear protein-coding (NPC) genes sampling 129 out of the 193 recognized extant families as well as the first comprehensive set of fully justified fossil calibrations to recover a refined timescale of beetle evolution. Using phylogenetic methods that counter the effects of compositional and rate heterogeneity, we recover a topology congruent with morphological studies, which we use,…

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Biology
Phylogenomics
Clade
Phylogenetic tree
Paleontology
Phylogenetics
Molecular clock

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