The life of an insect endosymbiont from the cradle to the grave

JP McCutcheon, BM Boyd, C Dale - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
… and the plastid (chloroplast) — the ancient organelles that in part define eukaryotic life — …
imply a specific order of symbiont acquisition and ranked importance to the insect host, both of …

The history of insect parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution

CC Labandeira, L Li - The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism …, 2021 - Springer
… the modern insect orders, is responsible for the huge number of … that of parasitoidism, with
the former originating at a very low … anomalous features: a large size of 17 mm in length; well-…

Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects

M Petersen, D Armisén, RA Gibbs, L Hering… - BMC Ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
… While most insect orders exhibit a characteristic TE composition, we … Previous reports on
insect genomes describe the … Our analysis shows that both genome size and TE content are …

Utilising museum data for comparative analysis of threatened insect species

S Connolly, D Ward - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2020 - Springer
… groups were covered, including families from the five mega-diverse insect orders. Data on
… population sizes, does not accurately reflect the conservation needs of most insect species. …

Insect herbivore population dynamics on trees and shrubs: new approaches relevant to latent and eruptive species and life table development

PW Price, N Cobb, TP Craig… - Insect-Plant …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… and their dynamics, developed by Morris and Miller,113 was 35 years old (see Reference
… for long shoots and attack shoots in order of their length.30 Larvae survive better in long

Counting animal species with DNA barcodes: Canadian insects

PDN Hebert, S Ratnasingham… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Viewed across all orders, the predicted size of the Canadian insect fauna (54 000 species)
is a close approximation to 1% of the latest planetary estimate of 5.6 million species [7]. …

Multiple large-scale gene and genome duplications during the evolution of hexapods

Z Li, GP Tiley, SR Galuska… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
… of polyploidy among insects and the fact that no ancient WGDs … S13) orders whose
divergence times far exceed most … Although we had a small sample size for each lineage, this …

Recalibration of the insect evolutionary time scale using Monte San Giorgio fossils suggests survival of key lineages through the End-Permian Extinction

M Montagna, KJ Tong, G Magoga… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… -old insect fossils … length preserved in dorsal/lateral view. (h) Phosphatized holometabolous
larva (MCSN8531) of approximately 4 cm in length (not complete), not assigned to an order. (…

Analyses of 600+ insect genomes reveal repetitive element dynamics and highlight biodiversity-scale repeat annotation challenges

JS Sproul, S Hotaling, J Heckenhauer… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
… taxonomic perspective than previous analyses and identify … Of the 20 insect orders in our
data set, 14 are represented in … the diversity of insect models with varying genome sizes and …

Comparative analysis of behavioural traits in insects

PJ Mayhew - Current opinion in insect science, 2018 - Elsevier
… indicates that Lepidoptera which attack particular host orders … selection to previous experience
in phytophagous insects. The … It provides evidence that larger size makes hidden warning …