Most species on Earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is
key to understanding the evolution of life. Insect relationships are increasingly well …

Beetles (Coleoptera) are the most diverse and species-rich group of insects, and a robust,
time-calibrated phylogeny is fundamental to understanding macroevolutionary processes …

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are fragments of mRNA sequences derived through single
sequencing reactions performed on randomly selected clones from cDNA libraries. To date …

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 …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a
relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found …

The species representation of public databases is growing rapidly and permits increasingly
detailed phylogenetic inferences. We present a supermatrix based on all gene sequences of …

The global diversity of True Water Beetles, False Water Beetles and Phytophilous Water
Beetles (sensu Jäch, 1998a. In Jäch & Ji (eds), Water Beetles of China, Vol. II. Zoologisch …

Mitochondrial genomes are readily sequenced with recent technology and thus evolutionary
lineages can be densely sampled. This permits better phylogenetic estimates and …

Molecular phylogenetic analyses have produced a plethora of controversial hypotheses
regarding the patterns of diversification of non-bilaterian animals. To unravel the causes for …