Molecular analysis of predation, through polymerase chain reaction amplification of prey
remains within the faeces or digestive systems of predators, is a rapidly growing field …

Phylogenies of major groups of insects based on both morphological and molecular data
have sometimes been contentious, often lacking the data to distinguish between alternative …

In phylogenetic analyses of molecular sequence data, partitioning involves estimating
independent models of molecular evolution for different sets of sites in a sequence …

Over the past decade the mitochondrial (mt) genome has become the most widely used
genomic resource available for systematic entomology. While the availability of other types …

Molecular evolutionary rate estimates have been shown to depend on the time period over
which they are estimated. Factors such as demographic processes, calibration errors …

Neuroptera (lacewings) and allied orders Megaloptera (dobsonflies, alderflies) and
Raphidioptera (snakeflies) are predatory insects and together make up the clade …

Background Building reference libraries of DNA barcodes is relatively straightforward when
specifically designed primers are available to amplify the COI-5P region from a relatively …

The entire mitochondrial genome of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera:
S**hidae) was sequenced—a circular molecular 15516 bp in size. The arrangement of …

Abstract The superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) is a diverse
group of parasitoid wasps that are parasitoids of nine orders of insects as well as spiders …

The phylogeny and taxonomy of mammalian species were originally based upon shared or
derived morphological characteristics. However, genetic analyses have more recently …