[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)

J Zhang, Q Cong, J Shen, NV Grishin - Insecta mundi, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Our expanded efforts in genomic sequencing to cover additional skipper butterfly
(Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) species and populations, including primary type specimens, call …

Objective review of de novo stand‐alone error correction methods for NGS data

AS Alic, D Ruzafa, J Dopazo… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The sequencing market has increased steadily over the last few years, with different
approaches to read DNA information prone to different types of errors. Multiple studies …

[HTML][HTML] Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)

Q Cong, J Zhang, J Shen, NV Grishin - Insecta Mundi, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic sequencing and analysis of worldwide skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
fauna points to imperfections in their current classification. Some tribes, subtribes and …

Genomes reveal drastic and recurrent phenotypic divergence in firetip skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyginae)

J Zhang, Q Cong, J Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biologists marvel at the powers of adaptive convergence, when distantly related animals
look alike. While mimetic wing patterns of butterflies have fooled predators for millennia …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics, the origin of swallowtail butterflies, and the impact of the number of clocks in B ayesian molecular dating

FL Condamine, B Nabholz, AL CLAMENS… - Systematic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) have been instrumental in
understanding many foundational concepts in biology; despite this, a resolved and robust …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

J Zhang, J Shen, Q Cong, NV Grishin - Zootaxa, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We obtained and phylogenetically analyzed whole genome shotgun sequences of nearly all
species from the tribe Emesidini Seraphim, Freitas & Kaminski, 2018 (Riodinidae) and …

The mitogenome of a Malagasy butterfly Malaza fastuosus (Mabille, 1884) recovered from the holotype collected over 140 years ago adds support for a new …

J Zhang, DC Lees, J Shen, Q Cong, B Huertas… - …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Malaza fastuosus is a lavishly patterned skipper butterfly from a genus that has three
described species, all endemic to the mainland of Madagascar. To our knowledge, M …

The complete mitochondrial genome of Lerema accius and its phylogenetic implications

Q Cong, NV Grishin - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are becoming model organisms for genetics and
evolutionary biology. Decoding the Lepidoptera genomes, both nuclear and mitochondrial …

The complete mitogenome of Euschemon rafflesia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

J Zhang, Q Cong, J Shen, XL Fan, M Wang… - … DNA Part B, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We assembled a complete mitochondrial genome of a unique Australian skipper butterfly
Euschemon rafflesia (Hesperiidae) from next generation sequencing reads. The 15,447 bp …

[HTML][HTML] Mitogenomes of giant-skipper butterflies reveal an ancient split between deep and shallow root feeders

J Zhang, Q Cong, XL Fan, R Wang, M Wang… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Giant-Skipper butterflies from the genus Megathymus are North American
endemics. These large and thick-bodied Skippers resemble moths and are unique in their …