bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/283788; this version posted March 17, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 The first next-generation sequencing approach to the mitochondrial phylogeny of African 2 monogenean parasites (Platyhelminthes: Gyrodactylidae and Dactylogyridae) 3 Maarten P.M. Vanhove1,2,3,4,5*, Andrew G. Briscoe6, Michiel W.P. Jorissen3,5, D. Tim J. 4 Littlewood6 & Tine Huyse4,5 5 1 Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ- 6 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic 7 2 Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P.O.Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, 8 Helsinki, Finland 9 3 Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity 10 & Toxicology, Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium 11 4 Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Biology, University of 12 Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 13 5 Biology Department, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B-3080 14 Tervuren, Belgium 15 6 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, 16 United Kingdom 17 * Corresponding author. E-mail:
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