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 …

Evolution by gene loss

R Albalat, C Cañestro - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016‏ - nature.com
The recent increase in genomic data is revealing an unexpected perspective of gene loss as
a pervasive source of genetic variation that can cause adaptive phenotypic diversity. This …

Deeply conserved synteny and the evolution of metazoan chromosomes

O Simakov, J Bredeson, K Berkoff, F Marletaz… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Animal genomes show networks of deeply conserved gene linkages whose phylogenetic
scope and chromosomal context remain unclear. Here, we report chromosome-scale …

The enormous repetitive Antarctic krill genome reveals environmental adaptations and population insights

C Shao, S Sun, K Liu, J Wang, S Li, Q Liu, BE Deagle… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is Earth's most abundant wild animal, and its enormous
biomass is vital to the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Here, we report a 48.01-Gb chromosome …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogeny and evolutionary history of arthropods

G Giribet, GD Edgecombe - Current Biology, 2019‏ - cell.com
Arthropods are the most diverse animal phylum, and their phylogenetic relationships have
been debated for centuries. With the advent of molecular phylogenetics, arthropods were …

Genomics and evolution of protein phosphatases

MJ Chen, JE Dixon, G Manning - Science signaling, 2017‏ - science.org
Protein phosphatases are the essential opposite to protein kinases; together, these enzymes
regulate all protein phosphorylation and most cellular processes. To better understand the …

Assembly: a resource for assembled genomes at NCBI

PA Kitts, DM Church, F Thibaud-Nissen… - Nucleic acids …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
The NCBI Assembly database (www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/assembly/) provides stable
accessioning and data tracking for genome assembly data. The model underlying the …

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 …

The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution

EE Schwager, PP Sharma, T Clarke, DJ Leite… - BMC biology, 2017‏ - Springer
Background The duplication of genes can occur through various mechanisms and is thought
to make a major contribution to the evolutionary diversification of organisms. There is …

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 …