Insect mitochondrial genomics: implications for evolution and phylogeny

SL Cameron - Annual review of entomology, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
The mitochondrial (mt) genome is, to date, the most extensively studied genomic system in
insects, outnumbering nuclear genomes tenfold and representing all orders versus very few …

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

C Cai, E Tihelka, M Giacomelli… - Royal Society …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

The beetle tree of life reveals that C oleoptera survived end‐P ermian mass extinction to diversify during the C retaceous terrestrial revolution

DD Mckenna, AL Wild, K Kanda… - Systematic …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (I nsecta: C oleoptera) based on DNA sequence
data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy nuclear protein‐coding genes, for …

Tick mitochondrial genomes: structural characteristics and phylogenetic implications

T Wang, S Zhang, T Pei, Z Yu, J Liu - Parasites & vectors, 2019‏ - Springer
Ticks are obligate blood-sucking arachnid ectoparasites from the order Acarina, and many
are notorious as vectors of a wide variety of zoonotic pathogens. However, the systematics …

Phylogeny of the Coleoptera based on morphological characters of adults and larvae

JF Lawrence, A Ślipiski, AE Seago… - Annales …, 2011‏ - ingentaconnect.com
In order to infer phylogenetic relationships within the extraordinarily speciesrich order
Coleoptera, a cladistic analysis is performed, in which 516 adult and larval morphological …

Higher‐level phylogeny of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) inferred from mitochondrial genomes

R Nie, AP Vogler, XK Yang, M Lin - Systematic Entomology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles) and related families in the superfamily Chrysomeloidea
are important components of forest ecosystems and play a key role in nutrient cycling and …

The prevalence and impact of model violations in phylogenetic analysis

S Naser-Khdour, BQ Minh, W Zhang… - Genome biology and …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
In phylogenetic inference, we commonly use models of substitution which assume that
sequence evolution is stationary, reversible, and homogeneous (SRH). Although the use of …

Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

CPDT Gillett, A Crampton-Platt… - Molecular biology …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Complete mitochondrial genomes have been shown to be reliable markers for phylogeny
reconstruction among diverse animal groups. However, the relative difficulty and high cost …

Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics

MJTN Timmermans, C Barton, J Haran… - Genome Biology and …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genomes are readily sequenced with recent technology and thus evolutionary
lineages can be densely sampled. This permits better phylogenetic estimates and …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of Neuropterida

Y Wang, X Liu, IJ Garzón‐Orduña, SL Winterton… - …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Neuroptera (lacewings) and allied orders Megaloptera (dobsonflies, alderflies) and
Raphidioptera (snakeflies) are predatory insects and together make up the clade …