Selected article for: "BEAST analysis and data set"

Author: Foley, Nicole M.; Thong, Vu Dinh; Soisook, Pipat; Goodman, Steven M.; Armstrong, Kyle N.; Jacobs, David S.; Puechmaille, Sébastien J.; Teeling, Emma C.
Title: How and Why Overcome the Impediments to Resolution: Lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid Bats
  • Document date: 2014_11_29
  • ID: v8xmnfko_53
    Snippet: The familial delimitation of Rhinonycteridae and Hipposideridae results in Asellia being basal to all other Hipposideridae. This clade received strong bootstrap and PP support across all analyses (see supplementary table S2, Supplementary Material online). This is contrary to a previous study, which, based on morphological data, places Aselliscus basal (Hand and Kirsch 1998) , despite the inclusion of Asellia in their data set. The genus Asellisc.....
    Document: The familial delimitation of Rhinonycteridae and Hipposideridae results in Asellia being basal to all other Hipposideridae. This clade received strong bootstrap and PP support across all analyses (see supplementary table S2, Supplementary Material online). This is contrary to a previous study, which, based on morphological data, places Aselliscus basal (Hand and Kirsch 1998) , despite the inclusion of Asellia in their data set. The genus Aselliscus contains two species, and its placement in the Hipposideridae phylogeny has been controversial. Pierson (1986) concluded that Aselliscus was not a member of Hipposideridae and was more closely aligned with the Rhinolophidae, based on immunological transferrin distance data. Morphological data place this genus among other Hipposideros spp. (Bogdanowicz and Owen 1998; Hand and Kirsch 1998) . These morphological results are in agreement with molecular data, which found strong support for a sister taxa relationship between Aselliscus and Coelops The BEAST analysis of three nuclear introns indicated that Anthops falls within the monophyletic group of Hipposideros spp. (fig. 3) . The previous study involving this genus showed that it formed a sister taxa relationship with H. caffer to which H. commersoni sensu lato was basal (Eick et al. 2005) . As our study included more species of true Hipposideros, it was hoped that the position of Anthops within this group could be resolved as it has implications for the taxonomic classification of the genus. Our data show that Anthops forms a poorly supported group with H. jonesi, H. armiger, and H. larvatus. The strong support for the monophyly of this clade indicates that Anthops most likely represents an incorrectly classified member of the genus Hipposideros. However, as this is based on a small data set and only received poor support, this result is not yet conclusive. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility that Anthops is a distinct genus basal to Hipposideros.

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