Ancient and modern hybridization between Lucilia sericata and L. cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
- Williams, Kirstin A, Villet, Martin H
- Authors: Williams, Kirstin A , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442633 , vital:74017 , 10.14411/eje.2013.029
- Description: There are important but inconsistent differences in breeding site preference between the blow flies Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) and L. cuprina (Wiedemann, 1830)(Diptera: Calliphoridae) that have significance for medical and veterinary science. These inconsistencies might arise from hybridisation. The species are difficult to distinguish using external morphology, although the male genitalia are distinctive and there are reliable molecular markers. Molecular evidence of modern hybridisation, derived from a newly developed nuclear marker, the period (per) gene, is presented here. This has implications for identifications of these species based on mtDNA, and may lead to an explanation of the medical and veterinary anomalies noted in these species.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Williams, Kirstin A , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442633 , vital:74017 , 10.14411/eje.2013.029
- Description: There are important but inconsistent differences in breeding site preference between the blow flies Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) and L. cuprina (Wiedemann, 1830)(Diptera: Calliphoridae) that have significance for medical and veterinary science. These inconsistencies might arise from hybridisation. The species are difficult to distinguish using external morphology, although the male genitalia are distinctive and there are reliable molecular markers. Molecular evidence of modern hybridisation, derived from a newly developed nuclear marker, the period (per) gene, is presented here. This has implications for identifications of these species based on mtDNA, and may lead to an explanation of the medical and veterinary anomalies noted in these species.
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- Date Issued: 2013
The final instar exuvium of Pycna semiclara Germar, 1834 (Hemiptera Cicadidae)
- Midgley, John M, Bouwer, Nicolette, Villet, Martin H
- Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
- Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
- Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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- Date Issued: 2013
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