Systematics of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera): current state and future directions.

A SHORT - Systematic Entomology, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the current state-of-the-art conditions of water beetle systematics,
including description of water beetle taxa, their evolutionary relationships and their use as …

Bayesian tests of topology hypotheses with an example from diving beetles

J Bergsten, AN Nilsson, F Ronquist - Systematic biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of
topological hypotheses in particular. We show that the standard way of setting up Bayes …

Revisiting the insect mitochondrial molecular clock: the mid-Aegean trench calibration

A Papadopoulou, I Anastasiou… - Molecular biology and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic trees in insects are frequently dated by applying a “standard” mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) clock estimated at 2.3% My− 1, but despite its wide use reliable calibration …

The effects of partitioning on phylogenetic inference

D Kainer, R Lanfear - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Partitioning is a commonly used method in phylogenetics that aims to accommodate
variation in substitution patterns among sites. Despite its popularity, there have been few …

Nucleotide substitution rates for the full set of mitochondrial protein-coding genes in Coleoptera

J Pons, I Ribera, J Bertranpetit, M Balke - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The ages of cladogenetic events in Coleoptera are frequently estimated with mitochondrial
protein-coding genes (MPCGs) and the “standard” mitochondrial nucleotide substitution rate …

Winding up the molecular clock in the genus Carabus(Coleoptera: Carabidae): assessment of methodological decisions on rate and node age estimation

C Andújar, J Serrano, J Gómez-Zurita - BMC evolutionary biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Rates of molecular evolution are known to vary across taxa and among genes,
and this requires rate calibration for each specific dataset based on external information …

The age and phylogeny of wood boring weevils and the origin of subsociality

BH Jordal, AS Sequeira, AI Cognato - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
A large proportion of the hyperdiverse weevils are wood boring and many of these taxa have
subsocial family structures. The origin and relationship between certain wood boring weevil …

Searching for the optimal data partitioning strategy in mitochondrial phylogenomics: a phylogeny of Acridoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) as a case study

JR Leavitt, KD Hiatt, MF Whiting, H Song - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges in analyzing multi-locus phylogenomic data is to find an optimal
data partitioning strategy to account for variable evolutionary histories of different loci for any …

Molecular phylogeny of the aquatic beetle family Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) with an emphasis on data partitioning strategies

SM Baca, EFA Toussaint, KB Miller… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2017 - Elsevier
The first molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the aquatic beetle family Noteridae is
inferred using DNA sequence data from five gene fragments (mitochondrial and nuclear) …

Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed‐clock model outperforms parsimony and time‐free Bayesian analyses

KB Miller, J Bergsten - Systematic Entomology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic relationships among members of the family Gyrinidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga)
were inferred from analysis of 42 morphological characters and DNA sequence data from …