Background Biomedical researchers use alignments produced by BLAST (Basic Local
Alignment Search Tool) to categorize their query sequences. Producing such alignments is …

Bioluminescence occurs when an enzyme, known as a luciferase, oxidizes a small‐
molecule substrate, known as a luciferin. Nature has evolved multiple distinct luciferases …

The rapid spread of artificial light at night (ALAN) poses myriad problems for nocturnal
biodiversity. Bioluminescent taxa that communicate via glowing lures, warning signals, or …

 Abstract Rhagophthalmidae are a small beetle family known from the eastern Palaearctic
and Oriental realms. Rhagophthalmidae are closely related to railroad worms …

The cost and complexity of generating a complete reference genome means that many
organisms lack an annotated reference. An alternative is to use a de novo reference …

Abstract Phengodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), commonly known as glowworm beetles,
are a small family of bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetles. There are few phylogenetic …

Elateroidea superfamily holds a huge diversity, morphological variation and a myriad of
habitat specializations. The presence of bioluminescence and paedomorphosis renders the …

Among bioluminescent beetles of the Elateroidea superfamily, Phengodidae is the third
largest family, with 244 bioluminescent species distributed only in the Americas, but is still …

Abstract Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) consist of over 2,000 described extant species. A
well-resolved phylogeny of fireflies is important for the study of their population genetics …

Multiple next-generation-sequencing (NGS)-based studies are enabled by the availability of
a reference genome of the target organism. Unfortunately, several organisms remain …