Background Lepidoptera is one of the most species-rich animal groups, with substantial
karyotype variations among species due to chromosomal rearrangements. Knowledge of the …

Background Biological invasions are responsible for substantial environmental and
economic losses. The red turpentine beetle (RTB), Dendroctonus valens LeConte, is an …

Abstract With more than 36,000 species, the longhorned beetles (family Cerambycidae) are
a mega‐diverse lineage of mostly xylophagous insects, all of which are represented by the …

Snakeflies (Raphidioptera) are the smallest order of holometabolous insects that have kept
their distinct and name-giving appearance since the Mesozoic, probably since the Jurassic …

The leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis has a broad geographic range across Western North
America but is restricted to cool habitats at high elevations along the west coast. Central …

The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman, is one of the most historically
impactful insects due to its near destruction of the US cotton industry in the early 20th …

The Diaprepes root weevil (DRW), Diaprepes abbreviatus, is a broadly polyphagous
invasive pest of agriculture in the southern United States and the Caribbean. Its genome …

Losing or regressing traits has occurred repeatedly throughout evolutionary history in
response to changing living environments. In parasitoid wasps, a mega-diverse group of …

Incredibly powerful whole genome studies of conservation genetics, evolution, and
biogeography become possible for non-model organisms when reference genomes are …

The evolutionary origins of mimicry in the Easter egg weevil, Pachyrhynchus, have
fascinated researchers since first noted more than a century ago by Alfred Russel Wallace …