A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

AY Kawahara, C Storer, APS Carvalho… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with
plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However …

Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths

AY Kawahara, D Plotkin, M Espeland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …

A comprehensive and dated phylogenomic analysis of butterflies

M Espeland, J Breinholt, KR Willmott, AD Warren… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans

JM Wolfe, JW Breinholt, KA Crandall… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Comprising over 15 000 living species, decapods (crabs, shrimp and lobsters) are the most
instantly recognizable crustaceans, representing a considerable global food source …

[HTML][HTML] Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae

S Bossert, EA Murray, EAB Almeida, SG Brady… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …

Lepidoptera genomes: current knowledge, gaps and future directions

DA Triant, SD Cinel, AY Kawahara - Current opinion in insect science, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Despite being an ecologically diverse and speciose insect order, genomes are
available for< 10 of the 43 Lepidoptera superfamilies.•Genome-scale data are advancing …

Phylogenomics illuminates the phylogeny of flower weevils (Curculioninae) and reveals ten independent origins of brood-site pollination mutualism in true weevils

J Haran, X Li, R Allio, S Shin… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Weevils are an unusually species-rich group of phytophagous insects for which there is
increasing evidence of frequent involvement in brood-site pollination. This study examines …

Old World and New World Phasmatodea: phylogenomics resolve the evolutionary history of stick and leaf insects

S Simon, H Letsch, S Bank, TR Buckley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Phasmatodea comprises over 3,000 extant species and stands out as one of the last
remaining insect orders for which a robust, higher-level phylogenetic hypothesis is lacking …

Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature's underwater architects

PB Frandsen, RW Holzenthal… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Caddisflies (Trichoptera) are among the most diverse groups of freshwater animals with
more than 16 000 described species. They play a fundamental role in freshwater ecology …

Phylogenomic data yield new and robust insights into the phylogeny and evolution of weevils

S Shin, DJ Clarke, AR Lemmon… - Molecular Biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The phylogeny and evolution of weevils (the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea) has been
extensively studied, but many relationships, especially in the large family Curculionidae …