Authors
Lars Dietz, Jonas Eberle, Christoph Mayer, Sandra Kukowka, Claudia Bohacz, Hannes Baur, Marianne Espeland, Bernhard A Huber, Carl Hutter, Ximo Mengual, Ralph S Peters, Miguel Vences, Thomas Wesener, Keith Willmott, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Dirk Ahrens
Publication date
2023/2
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
543-555
Description
- Species are the fundamental units of life and evolution. Their recognition is essential for science and society. Molecular methods have been increasingly used for the identification of animal species, despite several challenges.
- Here, we explore with genomic data from nine animal lineages a set of nuclear markers, namely metazoan‐level universal single‐copy orthologs (metazoan USCOs), for their use in species delimitation. Our data sets include arthropods and vertebrates. We use various data assembly strategies and use coalescent‐based species inference as well as population admixture analyses and phenetic methods.
- We demonstrate that metazoan USCOs distinguish well closely related morphospecies and consistently outperform classical mitochondrial DNA barcoding in discriminating closely related species in different animal taxa, as judged by comparison with morphospecies delimitations. USCOs …
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