Insect mitochondrial genomics: A decade of progress

SL Cameron - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The past decade has seen the availability of insect genomic data explode, with
mitochondrial (mt) genome data seeing the greatest growth. The widespread adoption of …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity of hymenopteran parasitoids

A Polaszek, L Vilhemsen - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•There are more parasitoid wasps than any other group of parasitoid insects.•The
parasitoid lifestyle arose in Hymenoptera only once, at least 200 Ma ago. The ancestral …

The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

A Cruaud, JY Rasplus, J Zhang, R Burks, G Delvare… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

The angiosperm radiation played a dual role in the diversification of insects and insect pollinators

D Peris, FL Condamine - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Interactions with angiosperms have been hypothesised to play a crucial role in driving
diversification among insects, with a particular emphasis on pollinator insects. However …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics and biogeography of sawflies and woodwasps (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)

S Wutke, SM Blank, JL Boevé, BC Faircloth… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phylogenomic approaches have recently helped elucidate various insect relationships, but
large-scale comprehensive analyses on relationships within sawflies and woodwasps are …

UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini), with insights on using specimens with extremely …

FV Freitas, MG Branstetter… - Insect Systematics …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Long-horned bees (Apidae, Eucerini) are found in different biomes worldwide and
include some important crop pollinators. In the Western Hemisphere, Eucerini received …

Diversity and evolution of telomeric motifs and telomere DNA organization in insects

VA Lukhtanov, EA Pazhenkova - Biological Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The telomerase mechanism and telomeric motifs are vital for maintaining chromosome
integrity. Their functions are conserved in eukaryotic organisms; therefore, it is not surprising …

Key innovations and niche variation promoted rapid diversification of the widespread Juniperus (Cupressaceae)

K Liu, E Li, X Cui, Y Wang, C Xu, Z Suo… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The processes of forming lineages undergoing widespread radiations remain a knowledge
gap that is fundamental to our understanding of the geographic distributions of species …

Evaluating UCE data adequacy and integrating uncertainty in a comprehensive phylogeny of ants

ML Borowiec, YM Zhang, K Neves… - Systematic …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
While some relationships in phylogenomic studies have remained stable since the Sanger
sequencing era, many challenging nodes remain, even with genome-scale data …

Evolving perspectives in Hymenoptera systematics: Bridging fossils and genomes across time

YM Zhang, S Bossert, T Spasojevic - Systematic Entomology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The recent advances in sequencing technologies, phylogenomics and divergence dating
methods call for an integrative review of the current state of Hymenoptera systematics. We …