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  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently. In this paper, we report on a set of specimens belonging to a new fossil species of stonefly, discovered from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (China). Our comparative analysis of wing venation and body characters demonstrates that the new species belongs to the Pteronarcyidae, and is more closely related to Pteronarcys than to Pteronarcella. However, it differs from all known species of the former genus. It is therefore assigned to a new genus and named Pteroliriope sinitshenkovae gen. et sp. nov. under the traditional nomenclatural procedure. The cladotypic nomenclatural procedure is also employed, with the resulting combination Pteroliriope nec Pteronarcys sinitshenkovae sp. nov. The first discovery of a fossil member of the Pteronarcyidae demonstrates that the corresponding lineage is not a very recent offshoot but was already present ca. 165 million years ago. This discovery concurs with the view that divergence of most stonefly families took place very early, probably in the Triassic, or even in the Permian. This contribution demonstrates the need for (re-)investigations of the systematics of fossil stoneflies to refine divergence date estimates for Plecoptera lineages.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    Background The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently.

Dong Ren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently. In this paper, we report on a set of specimens belonging to a new fossil species of stonefly, discovered from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (China). Our comparative analysis of wing venation and body characters demonstrates that the new species belongs to the Pteronarcyidae, and is more closely related to Pteronarcys than to Pteronarcella. However, it differs from all known species of the former genus. It is therefore assigned to a new genus and named Pteroliriope sinitshenkovae gen. et sp. nov. under the traditional nomenclatural procedure. The cladotypic nomenclatural procedure is also employed, with the resulting combination Pteroliriope nec Pteronarcys sinitshenkovae sp. nov. The first discovery of a fossil member of the Pteronarcyidae demonstrates that the corresponding lineage is not a very recent offshoot but was already present ca. 165 million years ago. This discovery concurs with the view that divergence of most stonefly families took place very early, probably in the Triassic, or even in the Permian. This contribution demonstrates the need for (re-)investigations of the systematics of fossil stoneflies to refine divergence date estimates for Plecoptera lineages.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    Background The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently.

Chungkun Shih - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently. In this paper, we report on a set of specimens belonging to a new fossil species of stonefly, discovered from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (China). Our comparative analysis of wing venation and body characters demonstrates that the new species belongs to the Pteronarcyidae, and is more closely related to Pteronarcys than to Pteronarcella. However, it differs from all known species of the former genus. It is therefore assigned to a new genus and named Pteroliriope sinitshenkovae gen. et sp. nov. under the traditional nomenclatural procedure. The cladotypic nomenclatural procedure is also employed, with the resulting combination Pteroliriope nec Pteronarcys sinitshenkovae sp. nov. The first discovery of a fossil member of the Pteronarcyidae demonstrates that the corresponding lineage is not a very recent offshoot but was already present ca. 165 million years ago. This discovery concurs with the view that divergence of most stonefly families took place very early, probably in the Triassic, or even in the Permian. This contribution demonstrates the need for (re-)investigations of the systematics of fossil stoneflies to refine divergence date estimates for Plecoptera lineages.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    Background The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently.

Zhi-teng Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • mitogenomic features of pteronarcys sachalina plecoptera Pteronarcyidae the only salmonfly known from china
    Zootaxa, 2020
    Co-Authors: Zhi-teng Chen
    Abstract:

    The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Pteronarcys sachalina Klapalek was sequenced and compared with those of two other salmonflies for the first time. The mitogenome of P. sachalina was 16,180 bp in length, with an A+T content of 70.6%. The uniform set of 37 genes (13 PCGs, 22 tRNA genes and two rRNA genes) and a long control region (1431 bp) were all annotated. Most PCGs had standard ATN start codons and TAN stop codons. COX1 exhibited the highest evolutionary rate among the 13 PCGs of sequenced species of Pteronarcyidae. ND2 was truncated at the 3' end when compared with congeners. Most tRNA genes had typical cloverleaf secondary structures, whereas the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm of trnS1 was reduced. Tandem repeats and stem-loop (SL) structures were predicted in the control region of P. sachalina. Conserved sequences were found in control regions of the three already sequenced salmonflies, P. sachalina, Pteronarcys princeps Banks, and Pteronarcella badia (Hagen).

  • rediscovery of the only known salmonfly from china pteronarcys sachalina klapalek 1908 plecoptera Pteronarcyidae
    Aquatic Insects, 2020
    Co-Authors: Zhi-teng Chen
    Abstract:

    The only known Chinese species of Pteronarcyidae, Pteronarcys sachalina Klapalek, 1908, is rediscovered from Jilin Province of northeastern China. Redescriptions and new illustrations for male, fem...

  • Molecular phylogeny of Systellognatha (Plecoptera: Arctoperlaria) inferred from mitochondrial genome sequences
    International journal of biological macromolecules, 2018
    Co-Authors: Zhi-teng Chen, Meng-yuan Zhao
    Abstract:

    Abstract The infraorder Systellognatha is the most species-rich clade in the insect order Plecoptera and includes six families in two superfamilies: Pteronarcyoidea (Pteronarcyidae, Peltoperlidae, and Styloperlidae) and Perloidea (Perlidae, Perlodidae, and Chloroperlidae). To resolve the debatable phylogeny of Systellognatha, we carried out the first mitochondrial phylogenetic analysis covering all the six families, including three newly sequenced mitogenomes from two families (Perlodidae and Peltoperlidae) and 15 published mitogenomes. The three newly reported mitogenomes share conserved mitogenomic features with other sequenced stoneflies. For phylogenetic analyses, we assembled five datasets with two inference methods to assess their influence on topology and nodal support within Systellognatha. The results indicated that inclusion of the third codon positions of PCGs, exclusion of rRNA genes, the use of nucleotide datasets and Bayesian inference could improve the phylogenetic reconstruction of Systellognatha. The monophyly of Perloidea was supported in the mitochondrial phylogeny, but Pteronarcyoidea was recovered as paraphyletic and remained controversial. In this mitochondrial phylogenetic study, the relationships within Systellognatha were recovered as (((Perlidae + (Perlodidae + Chloroperlidae)) + (Pteronarcyidae + Styloperlidae)) + Peltoperlidae).

  • The first two mitochondrial genomes from Taeniopterygidae (Insecta: Plecoptera): Structural features and phylogenetic implications.
    International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2017
    Co-Authors: Zhi-teng Chen, Yuzhou Du
    Abstract:

    Abstract The complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of Taeniopteryx ugola and Doddsia occidentalis (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) were firstly sequenced from the family Taeniopterygidae. The 15,353-bp long mitogenome of T. ugola and the 16,020-bp long mitogenome of D. occidentalis each contained 37 genes including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs) and a control region (CR). The mitochondrial gene arrangement of the two taeniopterygids and other stoneflies was identical with the putative ancestral mitogenome of Drosophila yakuba. Most PCGs used standard ATN start codons and TAN termination codons. Twenty-one of the 22 tRNAs in each mitogenome could fold into the cloverleaf secondary structures, while the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm of trnSer (AGN) was reduced or absent. Stem-loop (SL) structures, poly-T stretch, poly-[AT]n stretch and tandem repeats were found in the CRs of the two mitogenomes. The phylogenetic analyses using Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum likelihood methods (ML) generated identical results, both supporting the monophyly of all stonefly families and the two infraorders, Systellognatha and Euholognatha. Taeniopterygidae was grouped with another two families from Euholognatha. The relationships within Plecoptera were recovered as (((Perlidae + Peltoperlidae) + ((Pteronarcyidae + Chloroperlidae) + Styloperlidae)) + ((Capniidae + Taeniopterygidae) + Nemouridae)) + Gripopterygidae.

  • complete mitochondrial genome of capnia zijinshana plecoptera capniidae and phylogenetic analysis among stoneflies
    Journal of Asia-pacific Entomology, 2017
    Co-Authors: Zhi-teng Chen, Yuzhou Du
    Abstract:

    Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the winter stonefly, Capnia zijinshana (Plecoptera: Capniidae), was sequenced and compared with other stoneflies. The mitogenome of C. zijinshana is 16,310 bp long and contains 37 genes including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, two ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, and a control region (CR). The gene arrangement of C. zijinshana and other 12 stonefly mitogenomes is identical with the putative ancestral mitogenome in Drosophila yakuba. Twenty-one of the 22 tRNAs in the C. zijinshana mitogenome could be folded into the typical cloverleaf secondary structure, while the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm of trnS (AGN) was missing. The 1513-bp control region of C. zijinshana contained two potential stem-loop structures and a tandem repeat region. The phylogenetic relationships of 13 species from Plecoptera were analyzed based on the nucleotide sequences of 13 PCGs. The phylogenetic relationships among 13 stoneflies and two mayflies were inferred by Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood methods. C. zijinshana was grouped with another two winter stoneflies, Mesocapnia arizonensis and Apteroperla tikumana. The two analyses both supported the close relationship of Pteronarcyidae and Chloroperlidae, and also supported the sister-group relationship of Styloperlidae and Perlidae.

Boris C. Kondratieff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    Background The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently.

  • the first fossil salmonfly insecta plecoptera Pteronarcyidae back to the middle jurassic
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Boris C. Kondratieff, Yingying Cui, Olivier Bethoux, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
    Abstract:

    The fossil record of Plecoptera (stoneflies) is considered relatively complete, with stem-groups of each of the three major lineages, viz. Antarctoperlaria, Euholognatha and Systellognatha (and some of their families) represented in the Mesozoic. However, the family Pteronarcyidae (the salmonflies; including two genera, Pteronarcys and Pteronarcella) has no fossil record to date, and the family has been suggested to have diverged recently. In this paper, we report on a set of specimens belonging to a new fossil species of stonefly, discovered from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (China). Our comparative analysis of wing venation and body characters demonstrates that the new species belongs to the Pteronarcyidae, and is more closely related to Pteronarcys than to Pteronarcella. However, it differs from all known species of the former genus. It is therefore assigned to a new genus and named Pteroliriope sinitshenkovae gen. et sp. nov. under the traditional nomenclatural procedure. The cladotypic nomenclatural procedure is also employed, with the resulting combination Pteroliriope nec Pteronarcys sinitshenkovae sp. nov. The first discovery of a fossil member of the Pteronarcyidae demonstrates that the corresponding lineage is not a very recent offshoot but was already present ca. 165 million years ago. This discovery concurs with the view that divergence of most stonefly families took place very early, probably in the Triassic, or even in the Permian. This contribution demonstrates the need for (re-)investigations of the systematics of fossil stoneflies to refine divergence date estimates for Plecoptera lineages.

  • Studies on stoneflies (Plecoptera) of colorado with eastern faunal affinities, including a new state record of the midwestern salmonfly, Pteronarcys pictetii hagen (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae)
    2006
    Co-Authors: Robert E. Zuellig, Boris C. Kondratieff, Robert W Hood
    Abstract:

    Pteronarcys pictetii Hagen nymphs were collected and reared from the South Platte River at Julesburg in eastern Colorado. Including P. pictetii, eight species are now known from Colorado that exhibit eastern North American affinities, Paracapnia angulata Hanson, Taeniopteryx burksi Ricker and Ross, Taeniopteryx parvula Banks, Acroneuria abnormis (Newman), Perlesta decipiens (Walsh), Isoperla bilineata (Say), and Isoperla marlynia (Needham and Claassen). A brief discussion of the dispersal of these species into Colorado is presented.