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ProfessorAlfriedVogler

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Molecular Systematics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7942 5613a.vogler

 
 
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Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Bocak:2016:10.1098/rspb.2015.2350,
author = {Bocak, L and Kundrata, R and Fernandez, CA and Vogler, AP},
doi = {10.1098/rspb.2015.2350},
journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
title = {The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2350},
volume = {283},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The ongoing exploration of biodiversity and the implementation of new molecular tools continue to unveil hitherto unknown lineages. Here, we report the discovery of three species of neotenic beetles for which we propose the new family Iberobaeniidae. Complete mitochondrial genomes and rRNA genes recovered Iberobaeniidae as a deep branch in Elateroidea, as sister to Lycidae (net-winged beetles). Two species of the new genus Iberobaenia, Iberobaenia minuta sp. nov. and Iberobaenia lencinai sp. nov. were found in the adult stage. In a separate incidence, a related sequence was identified in bulk samples of soil invertebrates subjected to shotgun sequencing and mitogenome assembly, which was traced to a larval voucher specimen of a third species of Iberobaenia. Iberobaenia shows characters shared with other elateroid neotenic lineages, including soft-bodiedness, the hypognathous head, reduced mouthparts with reduced labial palpomeres, and extremely small-bodied males without strengthening structures due to miniaturization. Molecular dating shows that Iberobaeniidae represents an ancient relict lineage originating in the Lower Jurassic, which possibly indicates a long history of neoteny, usually considered to be evolutionarily short-lived. The apparent endemism of Iberobaeniidae in the Mediterranean region highlights the importance of this biodiversity hotspot and the need for further species exploration even in the well-studied European continent.
AU  - Bocak,L
AU  - Kundrata,R
AU  - Fernandez,CA
AU  - Vogler,AP
DO  - 10.1098/rspb.2015.2350
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 0962-8452
TI  - The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing
T2  - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2350
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/45471
VL  - 283
ER  -
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