Beyond chemoreception: diverse tasks of soluble olfactory proteins in insects

P Pelosi, I Iovinella, J Zhu, G Wang… - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Odorant‐binding proteins (OBPs) and chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are regarded as
carriers of pheromones and odorants in insect chemoreception. These proteins are typically …

Xenobiotic detoxification pathways in honey bees

MR Berenbaum, RM Johnson - Current opinion in insect science, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Phase I, II and III detoxification gene families are all reduced in honeybees.•
Synergistic pesticide interactions may reflect reduced detoxification gene numbers.•Dietary …

Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees

MG Branstetter, BN Danforth, JP Pitts, BC Faircloth… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects

C Holt, M Yandell - BMC bioinformatics, 2011 - Springer
Background Second-generation sequencing technologies are precipitating major shifts with
regards to what kinds of genomes are being sequenced and how they are annotated. While …

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (h ymenoptera: F ormicidae)

PS Ward, SG Brady, BL Fisher… - Systematic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the evolutionary history of a hyperdiverse clade, the ant subfamily M
yrmicinae (H ymenoptera: F ormicidae), based on analyses of a data matrix comprising 251 …

Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants

SA Smith, MJ Moore, JW Brown, Y Yang - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The use of transcriptomic and genomic datasets for phylogenetic reconstruction
has become increasingly common as researchers attempt to resolve recalcitrant nodes with …

Molecular evolution of the major arthropod chemoreceptor gene families

HM Robertson - Annual review of entomology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary origins of the three major families of chemoreceptors in arthropods—the
odorant receptor (OR), gustatory receptor (GR), and ionotropic receptor (IR) families …

Ionotropic receptors (IRs): chemosensory ionotropic glutamate receptors in Drosophila and beyond

R Rytz, V Croset, R Benton - Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Ionotropic Receptors (IRs) are a recently characterized family of olfactory receptors
in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. IRs are not related to insect Odorant Receptors …

The monarch butterfly genome yields insights into long-distance migration

S Zhan, C Merlin, JL Boore, SM Reppert - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
We present the draft 273 Mb genome of the migratory monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
and a set of 16,866 protein-coding genes. Orthology properties suggest that the Lepidoptera …

Orthology inference in nonmodel organisms using transcriptomes and low-coverage genomes: improving accuracy and matrix occupancy for phylogenomics

Y Yang, SA Smith - Molecular biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Orthology inference is central to phylogenomic analyses. Phylogenomic data sets commonly
include transcriptomes and low-coverage genomes that are incomplete and contain errors …