Genome size of 17 species from Caelifera (Orthoptera) and determination of internal standards with very large genome size in insecta

Y Mao, N Zhang, Y Nie, X Zhang, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Comparative studies of insect genome size show that Orthoptera is a unique group of
Insecta with a significantly enlarged genome. To determine a suitable internal standard for a …

High quality genome assembly of the anhydrobiotic midge provides insights on a single chromosome-based emergence of extreme desiccation tolerance

Y Yoshida, N Shaikhutdinov, O Kozlova… - NAR Genomics and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Non-biting midges (Chironomidae) are known to inhabit a wide range of environments, and
certain species can tolerate extreme conditions, where the rest of insects cannot survive. In …

Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Chloropinae of the world (Diptera: Chloropidae)

PR Riccardi, DDS Amorim - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The Chloropidae is a species-rich family of flies with about 3000 species in four subfamilies.
The Chloropinae is the second most species-rich subfamily with almost 1000 described …

Geographic variation in genomic signals of admixture between two closely related European Sepsid Fly species

A Giesen, WU Blanckenhorn, MA Schäfer… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Springer
The extent of interspecific gene flow and its consequences for the initiation, maintenance,
and breakdown of species barriers in natural systems remain poorly understood …

[PDF][PDF] Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)

PT Rohner, G Bächli - Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen …, 2016 - researchgate.net
In order to understand the evolution and ecology of organisms, detailed data on the
distribution and habitat preferences are essential. Although black scavenger flies (Diptera …

Fluctuating temperatures extend longevity in pupae and adult stages of the sepsid Themira biloba

D Melicher, JH Bowsher, JP Rinehart - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Fluctuating Thermal Regimes (FTR), where organisms are held at low temperatures
with a brief, daily warm pulse, have been shown to increase longevity in adult insects and …

Genomic signals of admixture and reinforcement between two closely related species of European sepsid flies

A Giesen, WU Blanckenhorn, MA Schäfer, KK Shimizu… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Interspecific gene flow by hybridization may weaken species barriers and adaptive
divergence, but can also initiate reinforcement of reproductive isolation trough natural and …

Comparative analysis reveals the complex role of histoblast nest size in the evolution of novel insect abdominal appendages in Sepsidae (Diptera)

D Melicher, KFY Su, R Meier, JH Bowsher - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018 - Springer
Background The males of some sepsid species (Sepsidae: Diptera) have abdominal
appendages that are remarkable in several ways. They are sexually dimorphic, have a …

Průtoková cytometrie a její využití ke studiu hmyzu

M Stuchlíková - 2017 - dspace.cuni.cz
Průtoková cytometrie je moderní metoda, která hraje nepopiratelnou roli zejména v
biomedicínském a botanickém výzkumu. Přes všechny své výhody (rychlost, jednoduchost …