A field guide to eukaryotic transposable elements

JN Wells, C Feschotte - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes.
Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management

A Hoffmann, P Griffin, S Dillon, R Catullo… - Climate Change …, 2015 - Springer
Evolutionary adaptation drives biodiversity. So far, however, evolutionary thinking has had
limited impact on plans to counter the effects of climate change on biodiversity and …

BUSCO applications from quality assessments to gene prediction and phylogenomics

RM Waterhouse, M Seppey, FA Simão… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genomics promises comprehensive surveying of genomes and metagenomes, but rapidly
changing technologies and expanding data volumes make evaluation of completeness a …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera

RS Peters, L Krogmann, C Mayer, A Donath, S Gunkel… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, and bees) are one of four mega-diverse
insect orders, comprising more than 153,000 described and possibly up to one million …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees

MG Branstetter, BN Danforth, JP Pitts, BC Faircloth… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid de novo genome assembly of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, with chromosome-length scaffolds

A Wallberg, I Bunikis, OV Pettersson, MB Mosbech… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background The ability to generate long sequencing reads and access long-range linkage
information is revolutionizing the quality and completeness of genome assemblies. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive error in the number of genes inferred from draft genome assemblies

JF Denton, J Lugo-Martinez, AE Tucker… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Current sequencing methods produce large amounts of data, but genome assemblies based
on these data are often woefully incomplete. These incomplete and error-filled assemblies …

[HTML][HTML] Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae

S Bossert, EA Murray, EAB Almeida, SG Brady… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …

Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee

KA Dogantzis, T Tiwari, IM Conflitti, A Dey… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The origin of the western honey bee Apis mellifera has been intensely debated. Addressing
this knowledge gap is essential for understanding the evolution and genetics of one of the …

[HTML][HTML] The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

BM Sadd, SM Barribeau, G Bloch, DC De Graaf… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The shift from solitary to social behavior is one of the major evolutionary
transitions. Primitively eusocial bumblebees are uniquely placed to illuminate the evolution …