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Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma

The relic silverfish Tricholepidion gertschi is the sole extant representative of the family Lepidotrichidae. Its phylogenetic position is of special interest, since it may provide crucial insights into the early phenotypic evolution of the dicondylian insects. However, the phylogenetic position of...

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Autores principales: Blanke, Alexander, Koch, Markus, Wipfler, Benjamin, Wilde, Fabian, Misof, Bernhard
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24625269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-16
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author Blanke, Alexander
Koch, Markus
Wipfler, Benjamin
Wilde, Fabian
Misof, Bernhard
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Wipfler, Benjamin
Wilde, Fabian
Misof, Bernhard
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description The relic silverfish Tricholepidion gertschi is the sole extant representative of the family Lepidotrichidae. Its phylogenetic position is of special interest, since it may provide crucial insights into the early phenotypic evolution of the dicondylian insects. However, the phylogenetic position of T. gertschi is unclear. Originally, it was classified among silverfish (Zygentoma), but various alternative relationships within Zygentoma as well as a sistergroup relationship to all remaining Zygentoma + Pterygota are discussed, the latter implying a paraphyly of Zygentoma with respect to Pterygota. Since characters of the head anatomy play a major role in this discussion, we here present the so far most detailed description of the head of T. gertschi based on anatomical studies by synchrotron micro-computer tomography and scanning electron microscopy. A strong focus is put on the documentation of mouthparts and the anatomy of the endoskeleton as well as the muscle equipment. In contrast to former studies we could confirm the presence of a Musculus hypopharyngomandibularis (0md4). The ligamentous connection between the mandibles composed of Musculus tentoriomandibularis inferior (0md6) is also in contact with the anterior tentorium. Phylogenetic analysis of cephalic data results in monophyletic Zygentoma including T. gertschi. Zygentoma are supported by the presence of a set of labial muscles originating at the postocciput, presence of an additional intralabral muscle, and four labial palpomeres. Character systems like the genitalic system, the mating behaviour, the segmentation of the tarsi, the overall body form, and the presence of ocelli which were proposed in other studies as potentially useful for phylogenetic reconstruction are evaluated.
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spelling pubmed-39752492014-04-05 Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma Blanke, Alexander Koch, Markus Wipfler, Benjamin Wilde, Fabian Misof, Bernhard Front Zool Research The relic silverfish Tricholepidion gertschi is the sole extant representative of the family Lepidotrichidae. Its phylogenetic position is of special interest, since it may provide crucial insights into the early phenotypic evolution of the dicondylian insects. However, the phylogenetic position of T. gertschi is unclear. Originally, it was classified among silverfish (Zygentoma), but various alternative relationships within Zygentoma as well as a sistergroup relationship to all remaining Zygentoma + Pterygota are discussed, the latter implying a paraphyly of Zygentoma with respect to Pterygota. Since characters of the head anatomy play a major role in this discussion, we here present the so far most detailed description of the head of T. gertschi based on anatomical studies by synchrotron micro-computer tomography and scanning electron microscopy. A strong focus is put on the documentation of mouthparts and the anatomy of the endoskeleton as well as the muscle equipment. In contrast to former studies we could confirm the presence of a Musculus hypopharyngomandibularis (0md4). The ligamentous connection between the mandibles composed of Musculus tentoriomandibularis inferior (0md6) is also in contact with the anterior tentorium. Phylogenetic analysis of cephalic data results in monophyletic Zygentoma including T. gertschi. Zygentoma are supported by the presence of a set of labial muscles originating at the postocciput, presence of an additional intralabral muscle, and four labial palpomeres. Character systems like the genitalic system, the mating behaviour, the segmentation of the tarsi, the overall body form, and the presence of ocelli which were proposed in other studies as potentially useful for phylogenetic reconstruction are evaluated. BioMed Central 2014-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3975249/ /pubmed/24625269 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-16 Text en Copyright © 2014 Blanke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Koch, Markus
Wipfler, Benjamin
Wilde, Fabian
Misof, Bernhard
Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title_full Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title_fullStr Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title_full_unstemmed Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title_short Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma
title_sort head morphology of tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic zygentoma
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24625269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-16
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