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 …

Mitochondrial metagenomics: letting the genes out of the bottle

A Crampton-Platt, DW Yu, X Zhou, AP Vogler - GigaScience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Mitochondrial metagenomics'(MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of
total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial …

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 …

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

D Pisani, W Pett, M Dohrmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how complex traits, such as epithelia, nervous systems, muscles, or guts,
originated depends on a well-supported hypothesis about the phylogenetic relationships …

Analysis of synonymous codon usage patterns in mitochondrial genomes of nine Amanita species

Q Li, Y Luo, A Sha, W Xiao, Z Xiong, X Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Codon basis is a common and complex natural phenomenon observed in many
kinds of organisms. Methods In the present study, we analyzed the base bias of 12 …

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 …

Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics

MJTN Timmermans, C Barton, J Haran… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genomes are readily sequenced with recent technology and thus evolutionary
lineages can be densely sampled. This permits better phylogenetic estimates and …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of Neuropterida

Y Wang, X Liu, IJ Garzón‐Orduña, SL Winterton… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroptera (lacewings) and allied orders Megaloptera (dobsonflies, alderflies) and
Raphidioptera (snakeflies) are predatory insects and together make up the clade …

Capturing the phylogeny of Holometabola with mitochondrial genome data and Bayesian site-heterogeneous mixture models

F Song, H Li, P Jiang, X Zhou, J Liu… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
After decades of debate, a mostly satisfactory resolution of relationships among the 11
recognized holometabolan orders of insects has been reached based on nuclear genes …

Higher‐level phylogeny and evolutionary history of Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) inferred from mitochondrial genome sequences

Y Liu, H Li, F Song, Y Zhao, JJ Wilson… - Systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The higher‐level phylogeny of Pentatomomorpha, the second largest infraorder of true bugs
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera), which includes many important agriculture and forestry pests, has …