Samuel Kelava, Dmitry A Apanaskevich, Renfu Shao, Alexander W Gofton, Ben J Mans, Ernest J M Teo, Gerrut Norval, Dayana Barker, Ryo Nakao, Stephen C Barker
We used entire mitochondrial (mt) genome sequences (14.5-15 kbp) to resolve the phylogeny of the four main lineages of the Haematobothrion ticks: Alloceraea, Archaeocroton, Bothriocroton and Haemaphysalis. In our phylogenetic trees, Alloceraea was the sister to Archaeocroton sphenodonti, a tick of an archetypal reptile, the tuatara, from New Zealand, to the exclusion of the rest of the species of Haemaphysalis. The mt genomes of all four of the Alloceraea species that have been sequenced so far had a substantial insert, 132-312 bp, between the tRNA-Glu (E) gene and the nad1 gene in their mt genomes...
March 12, 2024: Medical and Veterinary Entomology