Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Diversity, form, and postembryonic development of Paleozoic insects

J Prokop, A Nel, MS Engel - Annual Review of entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
While Mesozoic, Paleogene, and Neogene insect faunas greatly resemble the modern one,
the Paleozoic fauna provides unique insights into key innovations in insect evolution, such …

Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

MC Harrison, E Jongepier, HM Robertson… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50
million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we …

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

NL Garrison, J Rodriguez, I Agnarsson, JA Coddington… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …

An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea)

DA Evangelista, B Wipfler… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phylogenetic relationships among subgroups of cockroaches and termites are still matters of
debate. Their divergence times and major phenotypic transitions during evolution are also …

Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites

S Hellemans, MM Rocha, M Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The higher classification of termites requires substantial revision as the Neoisoptera, the
most diverse termite lineage, comprise many paraphyletic and polyphyletic higher taxa …

The systematics of Mantodea revisited: an updated classification incorporating multiple data sources (Insecta: Dictyoptera)

CJ Schwarz, R Roy - Annales de la Société entomologique de …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
After a brief synopsis of the history of mantodean classification, a re-organized systematic
arrangement of extant praying mantids is provided. To overcome past homoplasy problems …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics resolves the global spread of higher termites, ecosystem engineers of the tropics

T Bourguignon, N Lo, J Šobotník… - Molecular Biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The higher termites (Termitidae) are keystone species and ecosystem engineers. They have
exceptional biomass and play important roles in decomposition of dead plant matter, in soil …

Evolution of termite symbiosis informed by transcriptome-based phylogenies

A Bucek, J Šobotník, S He, M Shi, DP McMahon… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Termitidae comprises∼ 80% of all termite species [1] that play dominant decomposer roles
in tropical ecosystems [2, 3]. Two major events during termite evolution were the loss of …

Bacteria associated with cockroaches: health risk or biotechnological opportunity?

J Guzman, A Vilcinskas - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Cockroaches have existed for 300 million years and more than 4600 extant species have
been described. Throughout their evolution, cockroaches have been associated with …