Nematology (2006) 8, 455-474

Sergei A. Subbotin, Dieter Sturhan, Vladimir N. Chizhov, Nicola Vovlas and James G. Baldwin (2006)
Phylogenetic analysis of Tylenchida Thorne, 1949 as inferred from D2 and D3 expansion fragments of the 28S rRNA gene sequences
Nematology 8 (3), 455-474
Abstract: The evolutionary relationships of 82 species of tylenchid and aphelenchid nematodes were evaluated by use of sequence data of the D2 and D3 expansion fragments of the 28S ribosomal RNA genes. Nine automatic and one culled sequence alignments were analysed using maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference approaches. The molecular data sets showed that the order Tylenchida comprises lineages that largely correspond to two suborders, Hoplolaimina and Criconematina, and other taxonomic divisions as proposed by Siddiqi (2000). Several significant results also derived from our study include: i) the basal position of groups that include entomoparasitic nematodes within tylenchid trees; ii) paraphyly of the superfamily Dolichodoroidea sensu Siddiqi (2000); iii) evidence for a Pratylenchus, Hirschmanniella and Meloidogyne clade; and iv) lack of support for widely held traditional placement of Radopholus within Pratylenchidae and placement of this genus within Hoplolaimidae or Heteroderidae. Congruence and incongruence of molecular phylogeny and traditional classifications and morphological-based hypotheses of phylogeny of tylenchids are discussed.
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Database assignments for author(s): Nicola Vovlas

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
identification/taxonomy
molecular biology - genes

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Meloidogyne (genus)
	Pratylenchus (genus)
	Hirschmanniella (genus)
	Radopholus (genus)