Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

Insects comprise over half of all described animal species. Together with the Protura
(coneheads), Collembola (springtails) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails), insects form …

Most of arthropod biodiversity is unknown to science. Consequently, it has been unclear
whether insect communities around the world are dominated by the same or different taxa …

Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

Our understanding of the evolution of Fulgoromorpha (Insects, Hemiptera) has relied on
molecular studies that have only considered either a limited number of taxa where all the …

We analysed a phylogenomic dataset comprising 730 terminal taxa and> 160,000
nucleotide positions obtained using anchored hybrid enrichment of genomic DNA for a …

Background The latest advancements in DNA sequencing technologies have facilitated the
resolution of the phylogeny of insects, yet parts of the tree of Holometabola remain …

Ladybirds (family Coccinellidae) are one of the most diverse groups of beetles and globally
comprise over 6000 species. Despite their scientific and economic significance, the …

Herbivorous insects employ an array of salivary proteins to aid feeding. However, the
mechanisms behind the recruitment and evolution of these genes to mediate plant-insect …