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 …

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics

S Bybee, A Córdoba-Aguilar, MC Duryea… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - Springer
Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) present an unparalleled insect model to integrate
evolutionary genomics with ecology for the study of insect evolution. Key features of …

MitoZ: a toolkit for animal mitochondrial genome assembly, annotation and visualization

G Meng, Y Li, C Yang, S Liu - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) plays important roles in evolutionary and ecological
studies. It becomes routine to utilize multiple genes on mitogenome or the entire …

Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects

KP Johnson, CH Dietrich, F Friedrich… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hemipteroid insects (Paraneoptera), with over 10% of all known insect diversity, are a major
component of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Previous phylogenetic analyses have not …

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 …

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 …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Multiplex sequencing of pooled mitochondrial genomes—a crucial step toward biodiversity analysis using mito-metagenomics

M Tang, M Tan, G Meng, S Yang, XU Su… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The advent in high-throughput-sequencing (HTS) technologies has revolutionized
conventional biodiversity research by enabling parallel capture of DNA sequences …

How to sequence and annotate insect mitochondrial genomes for systematic and comparative genomics research

S Cameron - Systematic Entomology, 2014 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Over the past decade the mitochondrial (mt) genome has become the most widely used
genomic resource available for systematic entomology. While the availability of other types …