Coleoptera: Phytophaga

overview

Information provided here summarizes and supplements: Marvaldi, A. E., C. N. Duckett, K. Kjer, & J. Gillespie. Structural alignment of 18S and 28S rDNA sequences provides insights into phylogeny of Phytophaga (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea and Chrysomeloidea). Zoologica Scripta. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00360.x.

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figure 1

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Fig. 1. Multiple sequence alignment of primary and secondary structure of regions of 18S rDNA analysed in this study from nine diverse beetle species (Trachykele blondeli (Buprestoidea), Blackburniella intricata (Cleroidea), Chondria armipes (Cucujoidea: Endomychidae), Tenebrio molitor (Tenebrionoidea), Paracucujus rostratus (Cucujoidea: Boganiidae), Cucujus clavipes (Cucujoidea: Cucujidae), Palophagoides vargasorum (Chrysomeloidea: Megalopodidae), Rhynchitomacerinus kuscheli (Curculionoidea: Nemonychidae), Cossonus sp. (Curculionoidea: Curculionidae). The annotation is extended to the entire 18S rRNA for three of these beetle species (in bold). Complementary strands are indicated with a prime (e. g. strand X hydrogen bonds with strand X' to from helix X). Regions of alignment ambiguity (RAA) are placed within square brackets. Nucleotide positions within helices involved in hydrogen-bonding are depicted by parentheses in the mask. Single insertions (*) and deletions (-) are noted as in Kjer et al. (2001). Missing nucleotides are represented with question marks (?). Lower-case letters correspond to nucleotides confirmed by one strand only in sequencing. Note: this alignment has not been amended for these nine taxa from the original alignment of 104 beetle sequences, and thus gaps and insertions may correspond to taxa not presented in this figure.