- Title
- Flies in the ointment a morphological and molecular comparison of Lucilia cuprina and Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in South Africa
- Creator
- Tourle, Robyn, Downie, Douglas A, Villet, Martin H
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442156
- Identifier
- vital:73963
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00765.x
- Description
- Complementary nuclear (28S rRNA) and mitochondrial (COI) genes were sequenced from blowflies that phenotypically resembled Lucilia cuprina (W.), Lucilia sericata (Meigen) or exhibited characters of both species. The aim was to test a long‐held hypothesis that these species hybridize under natural conditions in South Africa (Ullyett, 1945). Blowflies were obtained predominantly from the Cape Town metropolitan area, but reference samples were acquired for L. sericata from Pretoria. Several L. cuprina‐like flies were shown to possess a conflicting combination of nuclear and mitochondrial genes that has also been seen in Hawaiian specimens. Homoplasy, sampling of pseudogenes, hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting are discussed as possible hypotheses for the pattern and the latter is concluded to represent the most likely explanation.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Tourle, R., Downie, D.A. and Villet, M.H., 2009. Flies in the ointment: a morphological and molecular comparison of Lucilia cuprina and Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in South Africa. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 23(1), pp.6-14, Medical and Veterinary Entomology volume 23 number 1 6 14 2009 1365-2915
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Villet, Martin Herrer (Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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