A.V. Mglinets, V.S. Bulgakova, O.E. Kosterin. A new molecular marker for phylogenetic studies in insects including parts of conservative histone H3 and H4 genes and spacer between them, as exemplified with Odonata

A new molecular marker is proposed for phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies in insects, as exemplified by application to dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata), based on the histone repeat, tandemly repeated for hundreds of copies, and containing most of the highly conserved (hence allowing universal primers) coding sequences of the genes of histones H3 and H4 and the non-coding and so variable spacer between them.