Kovalius (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Leiobuninae) Cinsinin İlk Moleküler Verileri ve Filogenetik İlişkileri

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 59 - 63, 30.06.2025

Pınar Kurt , Nalan Yıldırım Doğan

https://doi.org/10.31594/commagene.1648391

Abstract

Kovalius (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Leiobuninae) Tchemeris tarafından 2023 yılında tanımlanan küçük bir otbiçen cinsidir. Kovalius logunovi'nin ilk tanımı Rusya'dan yapılmış ve daha sonra morfolojik verilere dayanarak Türkiye'den kaydedilmiştir. Taksonların tanımlanması ve ilişkilerinin belirlenmesi için sadece morfolojik verilerin kullanılması bazı durumlarda sınırlamalara ve zorluklara yol açabilir. Sonuç olarak, yeni taksonların tanımlanmasında ve filogenetik ilişkilerin belirlenmesinde morfolojik verilere ek olarak moleküler verilerin de kullanılması çalışmaların güvenilirliğini artırmaktadır. Bu çalışmada Kovalius logunovi türünün mitokondriyal 16S rRNA gen bölgesi ilk kez çalışılmış ve yaklaşık 408 bp'lik bir dizi elde edilmiştir. Bu verilere dayanarak türün benzer türlerle olan filogenetik ilişkileri ortaya konmuştur.

Keywords

16S rRNA , Kovalius logunovi , filogenetik ağaç , Türkiye

Ethical Statement

Bu çalışma için etik kurul iznine ihtiyaç yoktur.

Thanks

Bu çalışma için örneklerinin toplanması ve tanımlanmasından dolayı Prof. Dr. Kemal KURT'a (Gümüşhane Üniversitesi, Türkiye) teşekkür ederiz.

First Molecular Data for the Genus Kovalius (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Leiobuninae) and their Phylogenetic Relationships

Abstract

Kovalius (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Leiobuninae) is a small genus of harvestmen described by Tchemeris, 2023. The first description of Kovalius logunovi was made from Russia and it was subsequently recorded from Türkiye on the basis of the morphological data. The use of morphological data alone for the identification of taxa and determination of their relationships may lead to limitations and difficulties in some cases. As a result, the use of molecular data in addition to the morphological data in the identification of new taxa and determination of phylogenetic relationships increases the reliability of studies. In this study, the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene region of the Kovalius logunovi species was examined for the first time and a sequence of approximately 408 bp was obtained. Based on these data, the phylogenetic relationships of the species with similar species were revealed.

Keywords

16S rRNA , Kovalius logunovi , phylogenetic tree , Türkiye

Ethical Statement

Ethics committee approval is not required for this study.

Thanks

We are grateful to Prof. Dr Kemal KURT (Gümüşhane University, Turkey) for the collection and identification of harvester specimens for this study.

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