Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Phylogeny and evolution of Neuropterida: where have wings of lace taken us?

MS Engel, SL Winterton… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The last 25 years of phylogenetic investigation into the three orders constituting the
superorder Neuropterida—Raphidioptera, Megaloptera, and Neuroptera—have brought …

Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera

RS Peters, L Krogmann, C Mayer, A Donath, S Gunkel… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, and bees) are one of four mega-diverse
insect orders, comprising more than 153,000 described and possibly up to one million …

Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species

SQ Zhang, LH Che, Y Li, D Liang, H Pang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Beetles (Coleoptera) are the most diverse and species-rich group of insects, and a robust,
time-calibrated phylogeny is fundamental to understanding macroevolutionary processes …

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 …

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

B Misof, S Liu, K Meusemann, RS Peters, A Donath… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

Evolution of lacewings and allied orders using anchored phylogenomics (N europtera, M egaloptera, R aphidioptera)

SL Winterton, AR Lemmon, JP Gillung… - Systematic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Analysis of anchored hybrid enrichment (AHE) data under a variety of analytical
parameters for a broadly representative sample of taxa (136 species representing all extant …

Abundant and diverse RNA viruses in insects revealed by RNA-Seq analysis: ecological and evolutionary implications

H Wu, R Pang, T Cheng, L Xue, H Zeng, T Lei… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Increasing data indicate that insects serve as major reservoirs and vectors of viruses, which
account for the continuously increasing ecological burden and infectious disease outbreaks …

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 …

Capturing the phylogeny of Holometabola with mitochondrial genome data and Bayesian site-heterogeneous mixture models

F Song, H Li, P Jiang, X Zhou, J Liu… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
After decades of debate, a mostly satisfactory resolution of relationships among the 11
recognized holometabolan orders of insects has been reached based on nuclear genes …