Background Studies have shown that taxonomically restricted genes are significant in
number and important for the evolution of lineage specific traits. Social insects have gained …

Reproductive interference due to interspecific hybridization can lead to character
displacement among related species with overlapping ranges. However, no studies have …

Many unique high‐altitude mountain ecosystems have been declining due to climate
change, posing a threat to flora and fauna that have adapted to these ecosystems. This …

Cataloging the very large number of undescribed species of insects could be greatly
accelerated by automated DNA based approaches, but procedures for large-scale species …

We genetically characterize an unusual hybrid incompatibility phenotype manifest in F1
offspring of crosses between two populations of Tribolium castaneum. Hybrid larvae cease …

Insect mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) are usually double helical and circular molecules
containing 37 genes that are encoded on both strands. The arrangement of the genes is not …

The phylogenetic relationships of the winged insect lineages–mayflies (Ephemeroptera),
damselflies and dragonflies (Odonata), and all other winged insects (Neoptera)–are still …

Availability of complete genomes provides a means to explore the evolution of enormous
developmental, morphological, and behavioral diversity among insects. Hemipterans in …

Phenotypic variation is ubiquitous in natural populations, both within and between
populations of the same species. Variation in body size is an obvious example of phenotypic …

The mitochondrial (mt) genome is, to date, the most extensively studied genomic system in
insects, outnumbering nuclear genomes tenfold and representing all orders versus very few …