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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the North American antlion genus Paranthaclisis banks (neuroptera : myrmeleontidae)
  name:
    name part: Diehl, Benjamin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Oswald, John D.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The North American antlion genus Paranthaclisis is comprehensively revised for the first time. Four species are recognized: P. congener (Hagen), P. floridensis Stange & Miller, P. hageni (Banks) and P. nevadensis Banks. Redescriptions, distribution maps and figures of diagnostic morphological characters are provided for adults of each species. A key to adults of Paranthaclisis is also included. Paranthaclisis californica Navas (1922) is recognized as a new synonym of P. hageni Banks. The monophyly of, and interspecific relationships within, the antlion genus Paranthaclisis, and its relationships to other genera within the tribe Acanthaclisini, are investigated using multiple datasets. Fifteen datasets were produced and analyzed to explore the effects of inference method, alignment strategy and data partitioning on phylogenetic estimates using morphological, molecular and mixed data inputs. Eighteen unordered and unweighted morphological characters were coded from across adult body regions. Molecular sequence data generated for this study consisted of two ribosomal genes, 16S and 18S. Paranthaclisis was recovered as monophyletic in analyses using 14 of 15 datasets, with low to moderate support in maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses and high support from Bayesian inference methods. A sister-group relationship between Paranthaclisis and Vella, the only other New World acanthaclisine genus, was also recovered in analysis of 13 of 15 datasets, with low to moderate support in all phylogenetic inference methods tested. Choice of phylogenetic inference method and partitioning of gene datasets had the most influence on resulting topologies and support values. Choice of alignment strategy resulted in few topological differences, but Clustal datasets generally had higher clade support values, compared to MAFFT-aligned sequences.
  note: "Major Subject: Entomology"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11791
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Paranthaclisis
  subject:
    topic: Phylogeny
  subject:
    topic: Myrmeleontidae
  subject:
    topic: Revision
  subject:
    topic: Acanthaclisini
  subject:
    topic: Taxonomy
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11791
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 121126
    record change date: 20150922150035.0
    record identifier: in00002784510