Until recently, deep-level phylogeny in Lepidoptera, the largest single radiation of plant-
feeding insects, was very poorly understood. Over the past two decades, building on a …

Gene duplications and gene losses have been frequent events in the evolution of animal
genomes, with the balance between these two dynamic processes contributing to major …

The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has allowed for thecollection of large
portions of the genome for phylogenetic analysis. Hybrid enrichment and transcriptomics are …

Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Iran* Page 1 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Iran* Authors:
Rajaei, Hossein, Aarvik, Leif, Arnscheid, Wilfried, Baldizzone, Giorgio, Bartsch, Daniel, et al …

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are one of the most taxonomically diverse insect orders
with nearly 160,000 described species. They have been studied extensively for centuries …

On the basis of an assemblage of fossilized wing scales recovered from latest Triassic and
earliest Jurassic sediments from northern Germany, we provide the earliest evidence for …

The first comprehensive checklist of the Lepidoptera of Canada and Alaska is presented.
Taxonomic papers, historical regional checklists, and many collections were consulted to …

Lepidoptera has rich species including many agricultural pests and economical insects
around the world. The mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) were utilized to explore the …

The phylogeny of insects has been both extensively studied and vigorously debated for over
a century. A relatively accurate deep phylogeny had been produced by 1904. It was not …