Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jan 5, 2026

A Concoction Pipeline for Generating Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs) Among Riparian and Aquatic Beetles
Published on: July 11, 2025
Phylogeny of the subgenus Eumitria in Tanzania
Stella G Temu1,2, Philippe Clerc3, Leif Tibell1
1Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University (UU), Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract:
Several Usnea species in subgenus Eumitria (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) have been described from East Africa in the past decades. These have been based on morphology and chemistry data while molecular studies remain very limited. In this paper we are for the first time publishing phylogenetic analyses along with morphological and chemical data for Eumitria. A total of 62 new sequences of Eumitria (26 ITS, 20 nuLSU, 6 MCM7, 10 RPB1) were generated in this study. nuLSU, MCM7 and RPB1 sequences are here for the first time reported for U. baileyi. A phylogeny of subgenus Eumitria from Tanzania based on Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of a concatenated four-loci data set is presented, confirming the monophyly of Eumitria. Further, secondary chemistry and variation in characters, such as the pigmentation of the central axis and branch shape were investigated.
Related Concept Videos
Phylogeny
Diversity of Protists I
Evolutionary Relationships through Genome Comparisons
Phylogenetic Trees
The Tree of Life - Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryotes
Synteny and Evolution
Around 80 million years ago, the human and mice lineages diverged from the common ancestor. During the course of evolution, the ancestral...

