Species delimitation, discovery and conservation in a tiger beetle species complex despite discordant genetic data

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dc.citation.articleNumber6617en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleScientific Reportsen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber14en_US
dc.contributor.authorDuran, Daniel P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLaroche, Robert A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRoman, Stephen J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGodwin, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorHerrmann, David P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBull, Ethanen_US
dc.contributor.authorEgan, Scott P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-08T13:27:48Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-10-08T13:27:48Zen_US
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractIn an age of species declines, delineating and discovering biodiversity is critical for both taxonomic accuracy and conservation. In recent years, there has been a movement away from using exclusively morphological characters to delineate and describe taxa and an increase in the use of molecular markers to describe diversity or through integrative taxonomy, which employs traditional morphological characters, as well as genetic or other data. Tiger beetles are charismatic, of conservation concern, and much work has been done on the morphological delineation of species and subspecies, but few of these taxa have been tested with genetic analyses. In this study, we tested morphologically based taxonomic hypotheses of polymorphic tiger beetles in the Eunota circumpicta (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841) species complex using multilocus genomic and mtDNA analyses. We find multiple cryptic species within the previous taxonomic concept of Eunota circumpicta, some of which were historically recognized as subspecies. We found that the mtDNA and genomic datasets did not identify the same taxonomic units and that the mtDNA was most at odds with all other genetic and morphological patterns. Overall, we describe new cryptic diversity, which raises important conservation concerns, and provide a working example for testing species and subspecies validity despite discordant data.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDuran, D. P., Laroche, R. A., Roman, S. J., Godwin, W., Herrmann, D. P., Bull, E., & Egan, S. P. (2024). Species delimitation, discovery and conservation in a tiger beetle species complex despite discordant genetic data. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 6617. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56875-9en_US
dc.identifier.digitals41598-024-56875-9en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56875-9en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/117925en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
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dc.titleSpecies delimitation, discovery and conservation in a tiger beetle species complex despite discordant genetic dataen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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