[HTML][HTML] The phylogeny and evolutionary history of arthropods

G Giribet, GD Edgecombe - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Arthropods are the most diverse animal phylum, and their phylogenetic relationships have
been debated for centuries. With the advent of molecular phylogenetics, arthropods were …

The evolution of insect biodiversity

E Tihelka, C Cai, M Giacomelli, J Lozano-Fernandez… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Insects comprise over half of all described animal species. Together with the Protura
(coneheads), Collembola (springtails) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails), insects form …

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

B Misof, S Liu, K Meusemann, RS Peters, A Donath… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

Uncertainty in the timing of origin of animals and the limits of precision in molecular timescales

M Dos Reis, Y Thawornwattana, K Angelis, MJ Telford… - Current biology, 2015 - cell.com
The timing of divergences among metazoan lineages is integral to understanding the
processes of animal evolution, placing the biological events of species divergences into the …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hemiptera reveals adaptive innovations driving the diversification of true bugs

H Li, JM Leavengood Jr… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hemiptera, the largest non-holometabolous order of insects, represents approximately 7% of
metazoan diversity. With extraordinary life histories and highly specialized morphological …

Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms

P Rausch, M Rühlemann, BM Hermes, S Doms… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The interplay between hosts and their associated microbiome is now
recognized as a fundamental basis of the ecology, evolution, and development of both …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing the enterococci from Paleozoic origins to the hospital

F Lebreton, AL Manson, JT Saavedra, TJ Straub… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We examined the evolutionary history of leading multidrug resistant hospital pathogens, the
enterococci, to their origin hundreds of millions of years ago. Our goal was to understand …

The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution

EE Schwager, PP Sharma, T Clarke, DJ Leite… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Background The duplication of genes can occur through various mechanisms and is thought
to make a major contribution to the evolutionary diversification of organisms. There is …

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

EA Sperling, CA Frieder, AV Raman… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The Proterozoic-Cambrian transition records the appearance of essentially all animal body
plans (phyla), yet to date no single hypothesis adequately explains both the timing of the …

Evolution of insect olfactory receptors

C Missbach, HKM Dweck, H Vogel, A Vilcinskas… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
The olfactory sense detects a plethora of behaviorally relevant odor molecules; gene
families involved in olfaction exhibit high diversity in different animal phyla. Insects detect …