Frances Morphy

(Im)mobility: regional population structures in Aboriginal Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 03-2010

DOI: 10.1002/J.1839-4655.2010.TB00184.X

Editorial preface

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 07-1987

DOI: 10.1017/S0025100300003157

Relative Autonomy Revisited: Reply to Francesca Merlan

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 21-11-2013

DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.12048

Anthropological Theory and Government Policy in Australia's Northern Territory: The Hegemony of the “Mainstream”

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 17-05-2013

DOI: 10.1111/AMAN.12002

Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 14-11-2016

DOI: 10.22459/CAEPR38.11.2016

Molecular phylogeny of soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) inferred from mitochondrial genome and nuclear rRNA sequences

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-1970

DOI: 10.1016/J.TTBDIS.2013.10.009

Abstract: The genus-level classification of soft ticks (Argasidae) is controversial. A previous phylogenetic analysis of morphological and developmental characters found that the genus Ornithodoros was paraphyletic and raised a new genus, Carios, for species previously in the genera Antricola, Argas, Ornithodoros, and Nothoaspis (Klompen and Oliver, 1993). Genetic analyses of soft ticks to date have been limited to 16S rRNA, which is not highly phylogenetically informative for this group. We sequenced the entire mitochondrial genomes of 7 species of soft ticks, and the partial mitochondrial genomes of a further 5 species of soft ticks. We used these sequences to test the genus-level classification of soft ticks. Our analyses strongly support a clade of Neotropical species (mostly bat-associated) within the subfamily Ornithodorinae. This clade, which we call Neotropical Ornithodorinae, has species from 2 genera, Antricola and Nothoaspis, and 2 subgenera, Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) and Ornithodoros (Subparmatus). We also addressed the phylogenetic position of Ornithodoros savignyi, the type species of the genus Ornithodoros. Our analysis strongly supports a clade consisting of Ornithodoros savignyi and 4 other Ornithodoros species: Or. brasiliensis, Or. moubata, Or. porcinus, and Or. rostratus. This clade, Ornithodoros sensu stricto, did not contain the Alectorobius and Subparmatus species, Or. (Alectorobius) fonsecai, Or. (Alectorobius) capensis, and Or. (Subparmatus) marinkellei, which in traditional classification schemes have been placed in the genus Ornithodoros. Our comparison of mitochondrial rRNA, nuclear rRNA, and mitochondrial genome analyses show that only mitochondrial genome sequences have the potential to resolve the controversial phylogenetic relationships within the major soft tick lineages, such as the taxonomic status of Carios sensu Klompen and Oliver (1993).

Australian National University

Location: Australia

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University College London

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Oxford University Press

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200102773

Start Date: 2020

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $930,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP200301589

Start Date: 01-2022

End Date: 01-2025

Amount: $516,968.00

Funder: Australian Research Council