Dragonflies and damselflies are a charismatic, medium-sized insect order (~ 6300 species)
with a unique potential to approach comparative research questions. Their taxonomy and …

We seek to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of the damselfly genus Calopteryx, for
which extensive behavioral and morphological knowledge already exists. To date, analyses …

Dragonflies and damselflies are among the earliest flying insects with extant
representatives. However, unraveling details of their long evolutionary history, such as egg …

We estimated the phylogeny of the order Odonata, based on sequences of the nuclear
ribosomal genes 5.8 S, 18S, and ITS1 and 2. An 18S‐only analysis resolved deep …

The classification of insect order Odonata is traced from Linnaeus' Systema Naturae,
through 19th and 20th century morphology-based taxonomies, to molecular phylogenies …

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) present an unparalleled insect model to integrate
evolutionary genomics with ecology for the study of insect evolution. Key features of …

Although Europe is the cradle of dragonfly systematics and despite great progress in the last
2 decades, many issues in naming its species and understanding their evolutionary history …

The application of mixed nucleotide/doublet substitution models has recently received
attention in RNA‐based phylogenetics. Within a Bayesian approach, it was shown that …

Introgression is an important biological process affecting at least 10% of the extant species
in the animal kingdom. Introgression significantly impacts inference of phylogenetic species …

This chapter introduces the insect order Odonata. It provides the most recent phylogeny and
up-to-date systematics as well as genera and species numbers of the various families in the …