Insect mitochondrial genomics: implications for evolution and phylogeny

SL Cameron - Annual review of entomology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Advances in insect phylogeny at the dawn of the postgenomic era

MD Trautwein, BM Wiegmann, R Beutel… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Most species on Earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is
key to understanding the evolution of life. Insect relationships are increasingly well …

300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling

H Song, C Amédégnato, MM Cigliano… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The evolutionary history of termites as inferred from 66 mitochondrial genomes

T Bourguignon, N Lo, SL Cameron… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Termites have colonized many habitats and are among the most abundant animals in
tropical ecosystems, which they modify considerably through their actions. The timing of their …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta,(Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), and an examination of mitochondrial gene …

SL Cameron, MF Whiting - Gene, 2008 - Elsevier
The entire mitochondrial genome of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera:
Spinghidae) was sequenced—a circular molecular 15516 bp in size. The arrangement of …

A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Diptera: whole genome sequence data accurately resolve relationships over broad timescales with high precision

SL Cameron, CL Lambkin, SC Barker… - Systematic …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial genomes provide a promising new tool for understanding deep‐level insect
phylogenetics, but have yet to be evaluated for their ability to resolve intraordinal …

A comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) and genome descriptions of six new beetles

NC Sheffield, H Song, SL Cameron… - Molecular biology and …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Coleoptera is the most diverse group of insects with over 360,000 described species divided
into four suborders: Adephaga, Archostemata, Myxophaga, and Polyphaga. In this study, we …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the bag-shelter moth Ochrogaster lunifer (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae)

P Salvato, M Simonato, A Battisti, E Negrisolo - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
Background Knowledge of animal mitochondrial genomes is very important to understand
their molecular evolution as well as for phylogenetic and population genetic studies. The …

Beyond barcoding: A mitochondrial genomics approach to molecular phylogenetics and diagnostics of blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

LA Nelson, CL Lambkin, P Batterham, JF Wallman… - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
Members of the Calliphoridae (blowflies) are significant for medical and veterinary
management, due to the ability of some species to consume living flesh as larvae, and for …

Why barcode? High-throughput multiplex sequencing of mitochondrial genomes for molecular systematics

MJTN Timmermans, S Dodsworth… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genome sequences are important markers for phylogenetics but taxon
sampling remains sporadic because of the great effort and cost required to acquire full …