Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials

S Feng, M Bai, I Rivas-González, C Li, S Liu, Y Tong… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

Early evolution of beetles regulated by the end-Permian deforestation

X Zhao, Y Yu, ME Clapham, E Yan, J Chen… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) led to a severe terrestrial ecosystem collapse.
However, the ecological response of insects—the most diverse group of organisms on Earth …

[HTML][HTML] Driving factors and their interactions of carabid beetle distribution based on the geographical detector method

X Liu, H Wang, X Wang, M Bai, D He - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The decline of insect diversity has received widespread attention as a serious ecosystem
problem worldwide. Accurately learning the driving factors of insect decline is difficult …

Study on the relationship between richness and morphological diversity of higher taxa in the darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

L Cheng, Y Tong, Y Zhao, Z Sun, X Wang, F Ma, M Bai - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many studies have found that the correlation between species richness (SR) and
morphological diversity (MD) is positive, but the correlation degree of these parameters is …

Evolutionary radiation strategy revealed in the Scarabaeidae with evidence of continuous spatiotemporal morphology and phylogenesis

Y Tong, Y Lu, Z Tian, X Yang, M Bai - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Evolutionary biology faces the important challenge of determining how to interpret the
relationship between selection pressures and evolutionary radiation. The lack of …

The modeling and forecasting of carabid beetle distribution in northwestern China

X Liu, H Wang, D He, X Wang, M Bai - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The relationship between species and environment are an important basis
for the study of biodiversity. Most researchers have found the distribution of indicator insects …

Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Genus Chaetocnema (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) with Insights on Its Subgenera Classification and Morphological …

M Zhang, Y Ruan, M Bai, X Chen, L Li, X Yang, Z Meng… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
In taxonomy, qualitative methods are commonly used to analyze morphological characters,
which can lead to dramatic changes in higher taxa. Geometric morphometrics (GM) has …

Exploring the mitogenomes of Batracomorphus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae): new insights from structural diversity and phylogenomic analyses

Y Hu, CH Dietrich, W Dai - Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Comparisons of mitogenomes are widely used for species identification and to explore the
phylogenetic relationship among insect taxa. Batracomorphus is the third most diverse and …

Effects of Color Attributes on Trap Capture Rates of Chrysobothris femorata (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and Related Species

CL Perkovich, KM Addesso, JP Basham… - Environmental …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Chrysobothris spp.(Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and other closely related buprestids
are common pests of fruit, shade, and nut trees in the United States. Many Chrysobothris …

Morphometric analysis of forewing venation does not consistently differentiate the leafhopper tribes Typhlocybini and Zyginellini

H Wen, X Zhou, CH Dietrich, M Huang - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tribes of the leafhopper subfamily Typhlocybinae have traditionally been defined based on
differences in hind wing venation, but the forewing venation also differs among some tribes …