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Title: | Evolutionary relationships of wing venation and wing size and shape in Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) | Authors: | Žikić, Vladimir Stanković, Saša Petrović, Andjeljko Ilić Milošević, Marijana Tomanović, Željko Klingenberg, Christian Peter Ivanović, Ana |
Keywords: | Comparative analyses;Geometric morphometrics;Host specialization;Miniaturization;Parasitoids | Issue Date: | 22-Jul-2017 | Project: | III43001 | Journal: | Organisms Diversity and Evolution | Abstract: | © 2017, Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik. We explored evolutionary changes in wing venation and wing size and shape in Aphidiinae, one of the well-known groups of parasitic wasps from the family Braconidae. Forewings of 53 species from 12 genera were examined, for which a molecular phylogeny was constructed on the basis of the mitochondrial barcoding gene COI. By covering all types of wing venation within the subfamily Aphidiinae and by using landmark-based geometric morphometrics and phylogenetic comparative methods, we tested whether evolutionary changes in wing shape correlate to the changes in wing venation and if both changes relate to wing size. The relationship between wing morphology and host specificity has been also investigated. We found that six types of wing venation, with different degree of vein reduction, could be recognized. Wing venation type is largely genus specific, except in the case of maximal reduction of wing venation which could be found across examined Aphidiinae taxa. The reconstruction of evolutionary changes in wing venation indicates that evolutionary changes in wing shape are related to the changes in wing size, indicating that miniaturization play a role in evolution of wing morphology while host specialization does not affect the wing shape within the subfamily Aphidiinae. |
URI: | https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1995 | ISSN: | 1439-6092 | DOI: | 10.1007/s13127-017-0338-2 |
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