Anchored hybrid enrichment phylogenomics resolves the backbone of erebine moths

Organization and phylogenetic relationships of the mitochondrial genomes of Speiredonia retorta and other lepidopteran insects

“…According to Homziak's study, our analyses revealed a topology within Erebinae that was as follows: ((Catocala sp + Speiredonia retorta) + (Grammodes geometrica + Parallelia stuposa) + Eudocima phalonia). The result indicated that Catocalini belongs to Erebinae subfamily 30 , as confirmed via BI (Fig. 8A) and ML (Fig.…”

A deeper meaning for shallow‐level phylogenomic studies: nested anchored hybrid enrichment offers great promise for resolving the tiger moth tree of life (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)

“…Producing augmented probe sets that are focused on a lineage of interest (e.g., BUTTERFLY1.0, BUTTERFLY 1.1 and BOM1 derived from the more general Lep1) more efficiently recovers phylogenetically informative loci and/or loci capture efficiency (Espeland et al, 2018;Toussaint et al, 2018;Hamilton et al, 2019). Comparing the application of Lep1 within the Erebinae (Noctuoidea: Erebidae) to our results applying NOC1 to the Arctiinae, we recovered more loci (730 vs 658), longer mean locus length (575 bp vs 320 bp) and a longer concatenated total length (420 574 bp vs 210 484 bp) (Homziak et al, 2018). While we have not explicitly tested the effectiveness of NOC1 across the entire Noctuoidea, NOC1 may also perform well within other noctuoid lineages, generating new insights into the evolution of a lineage which comprises >25% of all Lepidoptera (van Nieukerken et al, 2011), includes major agricultural pests, and serves critical functions in terrestrial ecosystems such as herbivory, pollination, and as a food source for many predators (Mitchell et al, 2006;Zahiri et al, 2011).…”

“…Only 658 loci of the total 855 within the Lep1 probe set were recovered for this group. While this study recovered the most well-resolved phylogeny of Erebinae to date, many relationships still lacked strong statistical support, making the placement of major groups uncertain (Homziak et al, 2018). One strategy to deal with this is to create more taxon-specialized AHE probe sets.…”

“…Lep1 combined with additional transcriptomic and genomic data (>2.5 Mbp in total) analysed with a maximum likelihood (ML) approach generated poor branch support (<70%) for all examined interfamilial relationships within the Noctuoidea (Breinholt et al, 2018). Recently, the Lep1 probe set was applied within the Erebinae, a subfamily of Erebidae, one of the largest families within Noctuoidea (Homziak et al, 2018). Only 658 loci of the total 855 within the Lep1 probe set were recovered for this group.…”

Historical biogeography of Heteropterinae skippers via Beringian and post‐Tethyan corridors

“…Recent progress in phylogenomics and museomics ( i.e . use of DNA from old museum specimens) have allowed a better understanding of Lepidoptera systematics, phylogenetics and evolution (Allio et al., 2020; Breinholt et al., 2018; Dowdy et al., 2020; Espeland et al., 2018; Hamilton et al., 2019; Homziak et al., 2019; Kawahara et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019; St Laurent et al., 2018; Toussaint et al., 2018). Among butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), increasingly well sampled and strongly supported trees‐of‐life are facilitating new evolutionary insights thanks to the application of new methods.…”