New work out! Discordance between phylogenomic datasets in aphids: who is telling the truth?

After many years in the making (and an eternal cycle of adding new data….) our work on the discordance among phylogenomic datasets in is out!

Relationships between subfamilies remain contentious in both mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies. Topologies obtained with Buchnera appear fully resolved but exhibit some discordance with host phylogenies at deep evolutionary scales and conflict with views on the evolution of aphid morphology. BUT…. further sampling (we had to stop at some point for this study) and sequence-independent analyses, such as male morphology and chromosomal structure, might help piece out some difficult-to-solve/contentious relationships.

This was a great collaboration with friends and work colleagues Emmanuelle Jousselin and Armelle Cœur d’acier (CBGP, france).

Reference: 10.1101/2024.04.12.589189
*Version of record: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae098