The Culicinae are Monophyletic and Ancient: A response to Pierce et al. 2025
John Soghigian, Gen Morinaga, Huiqing Yeo, Yvonne‐Marie Linton, Richard Charles Wilkerson, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Igor Sharakov, Maria Sharakova, Magdalena Laurito, Woo Jun Bang, Seunggwan Shin, Loki Snyman, Thomas J. Zavortink, Charles B. Sither, Michael Hay Reiskind, Brian M. Wiegmann
This paper challenges recent claims that mosquito subfamilies are not monophyletic by presenting evidence supporting two monophyletic subfamilies and an ancient divergence.
bioRxiv · May 6, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology