Acronym: SPEBAS
Collaborators: Carl Vangestel (JEMU-RBINS), Gontran Sonet (JEMU-RBINS), Massimiliano Virgilio (JEMU-RMCA), Nele Mullens (JEMU-RMCA), Kurt Jordaens (RMCA), Alfried Vogler (Imperial College London, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park), London, United Kingdom), Jeroen van Steenis (Hof der Toekomst 48, 3823 HX Amersfoort, The Netherlands)
Year: 2014
Summary: The objectives of this projects are: 1) delimit species boundaries in selected hover fly genera using mitogenomics (whole mitochondrial genomes), 2) resolve the phylogenetic relationships within these genera 3) perform cladistic analysis and evaluate the evolutionary trajectory of morphological characters 4) re-describe (new) species from the Afrotropics
Output:
- Peer-reviewed paper: Systematics of Afrotropical Eristalinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) using mitochondrial phylogenomics. Mullens, N., Sonet, G., Virgilio, M., Goergen, G., Janssens, S.B., De Meyer, M. et al. (2022) Systematic Entomology, 47( 2), 315– 328.
- Poster: A mitogenomic approach to resolve the phylogeny of Afrotropical hoverflies (Syrphidae). Jordaens, K., Mullens, N., Sonet, G., Virgilio, M., Vangestel, C., Goergen, G. & De Meyer, M. (2018) 9th International Congress of Dipterology (Windhoek, Namibia). Book of abstracts. 127.