Abstract 'Mitochondrial metagenomics'(MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of
total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial …

With the rapid increase of sequenced metazoan mitochondrial genomes, a detailed manual
annotation is becoming more and more infeasible. While it is easy to identify the …

The past decade has seen the availability of insect genomic data explode, with
mitochondrial (mt) genome data seeing the greatest growth. The widespread adoption of …

Orthoptera is the most diverse order among the polyneopteran groups and includes familiar
insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their kin. Due to a long history of …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

The advent in high-throughput-sequencing (HTS) technologies has revolutionized
conventional biodiversity research by enabling parallel capture of DNA sequences …

Neuroptera (lacewings) and allied orders Megaloptera (dobsonflies, alderflies) and
Raphidioptera (snakeflies) are predatory insects and together make up the clade …

The grasshopper family Acrididae is one of the most diverse lineages within Orthoptera,
including more than 6,700 valid species distributed worldwide. Grasshoppers are dominant …

Prior to this study, complete mitochondrial genomes from Order Thysanoptera were
restricted to a single family, the Thripidae, resulting in a biased view of their evolution. Here …

Following the acceptance of plate tectonics theory in the latter half of the 20th century,
vicariance became the dominant explanation for the distributions of many plant and animal …