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Cryptic diversity in host-associated populations of Tetra pinnatifidae (Acari: Eriophyoidea): What do morphometric, mitochondrial and nuclear data reveal and conceal?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Hao-Sen Li
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Xiao-Feng Xue
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Xiao-Yue Hong*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
*
*Author for correspondence+86-25-84395339 E-mail: xyhong@njau.edu.cn

Abstract

Traditional morphology-based taxonomy of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) has been challenged by molecular-based technologies in the detection of cryptic species. However, the implications of such cryptic diversity appear to differ when methods based on different types of data are used. Here, samples of a host-associated eriophyoid mite species, Tetra pinnatifidae, collected from different host plants and localities are evaluated. The congruence of results based on morphometric (32 characters), mitochondrial (16S), and nuclear (28S) data were evaluated and showed a host-associated cryptic diversity dividing this morphospecies into several groups/clades that were morphometrically indistinguishable. In comparison, the 16S data confirmed cryptic speciation and intra-clade host-associated diversity, while 28S did not. In contrast, 28S data revealed potential gene flow between host-associated populations. High mitochondrial divergence, as well as low nuclear and morphological divergence indicated very recent stage of cryptic diversity of this eriophyoid mite.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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