20 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Akash Ajay, M. Sravya, K Akhila, K. Yashwant
Insects, comprising over half of all known species, are pivotal to ecosystems and ideal for studying trait evolution due to their morphological and genomic diversity. Yet, the macroevolutionary interplay between their phenotypic traits and genomic architecture is poorly resolved. Using a Tree of Life framework and…
James L. Rainford, Michael Hofreiter, David B. Nicholson, Peter J. Mayhew + 1 more
'Peter J. Mayhew' 'Axel Janke'] Insects and their six-legged relatives (Hexapoda) comprise more than half of all described species and dominate terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Understanding the macroevolutionary processes generating this richness requires a historical perspective, but the fossil record of…
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
Insects are important elements of terrestrial ecosystems because they pollinate plants, destroy crops, transmit diseases to livestock and humans, and are important components of food chains. Here I used Gephebase, a manually curated database of genetic variants associated with natural and domesticated trait variation…
Isabel Almudi, Carlos Martín-Blanco, Isabel M. García-Fernandez, Adrián López-Catalina + 3 more
The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would allow the reconstruction of the…
Isabel Almudi, Carlos A. Martín-Blanco, Isabel M. García-Fernandez, Adrián López-Catalina + 3 more
'Adrián López-Catalina' 'Kristofer Davie' 'Stein Aerts' 'Fernando Casares'] The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is…
Chun He, Yi Yang, Xianxin Zhao, Junjie Li + 14 more
The order Hymenoptera includes a large number of species with diverse lifestyles and is known for its significant contributions to natural ecosystems. To better understand the evolution of this diverse order, we performed large-scale comparative genomics on 131 species from 13 superfamilies, covering most…
Jakub Białkowski, Jostein Gohli, Robert Rossa, Anna Ziemiakowicz + 1 more
Miniaturization profoundly alters animal morphology, particularly locomotory structures like insect wings. Larger insects possess membranous wings optimized for flight dominated by inertial forces, while microinsects have highly derived bristled wings with a reduced membrane, adapted to viscous interactions. Distantly…
Chunpeng Xu, Jun Chen, Florian T. Muijres, Yilun Yu + 3 more
Insects have evolved diverse ecological flight behaviors and adaptations that played a key role in their large-scale evolutionary patterns. However, the evolution of their flight performance is poorly understood because reconstructing flight abilities of extinct insects is highly challenging. Here, we propose an…
Xavier Belles
Experiments exploring the role of juvenile hormone during the life cycle of firebrat insects provide clues about the evolution of metamorphosis.
Gregg W.C. Thomas, Elias Dohmen, Daniel S.T. Hughes, Shwetha C. Murali + 75 more
Arthropods comprise the largest and most diverse phylum on Earth and play vital roles in nearly every ecosystem. Their diversity stems in part from variations on a conserved body plan, resulting from and recorded in adaptive changes in the genome. Dissection of the genomic record of sequence change enables broad…
Jun Xu, Wei Zhang
Insect diversity constitutes one of the most remarkable biological phenomena on our planet, characterized by intricate and multifaceted relationships with human society. Functioning as both pollinators and decomposers, insects serve as indispensable components in sustaining ecological equilibrium. This biodiversity is…
Emmanuelle Jousselin, Marianne Élias
During the last two decades, ecological speciation has been a major research theme in evolutionary biology. Ecological speciation occurs when reproductive isolation between populations evolves as a result of niche differentiation. Phytophagous insects represent model systems for the study of this evolutionary process.…
Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin
The paper is a third part of the themed issue “Aberrant cytogenetic and reproductive patterns in the evolution of Paraneoptera”, prepared by a Russian-Bulgarian research team on the basis of long-term collaborative studies. This chapter reviews different peculiar aberrations in the ontogenesis of Paraneoptera, such as…
Bo Wang, Haichun Zhang, Edmund A. Jarzembowski
The Coleoptera (beetles) constitute almost one-fourth of all known life-forms on earth. They are also among the most important pollinators of flowering plants, especially basal angiosperms. Beetle fossils are abundant, almost spanning the entire Early Cretaceous, and thus provide important clues to explore the…
Sarah Bank, Sven Bradler
The re-evolution of complex characters is generally considered impossible, yet, studies of recent years have provided several examples of phenotypic reversals shown to violate Dollo’s law. Along these lines, the regain of wings in stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) was hypothesised to have occurred several times…
Ofer Feinerman, Amos Korman
The concerted responses of eusocial insects to environmental stimuli are often referred to as collective cognition on the level of the colony.To achieve collective cognitiona group can draw on two different sources: individual cognitionand the connectivity between individuals.Computation in neural-networks, for…
Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Thanh-Dat Truong, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Ashley P. G. Dowling + 2 more
'Ashley P. G. Dowling' 'Xin Li' 'Khoa Luu'] In precision agriculture, the detection and recognition of insects play an essential role in the ability of crops to grow healthy and produce a high-quality yield. The current machine vision model requires a large volume of data to achieve high performance. However, there are…
Sun Mao
Approximately half of the existing winged-insect species are of very small size (wing length≈0.3-4 mm); they are referred to as miniature insects. Yet until recently, much of what we know about the mechanics of insect flight was derived from studies on relatively large insects, such as hoverflies, honey bees and…
Ashraf El-Sayed, Lee-Anne Manning
The pink grass worm, Tmetolophota atristriga (Walker), is a New Zealand native species. It is abundant throughout the North and South Islands and is a pest which defoliates pasture. In this study, the sex pheromone of this species was investigated. Analysis of the extract of the female sex pheromone gland by GC/EAD…
Thanh-Dat Truong, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Ashley P. G. Dowling + 2 more
Vision-Language Insect Understanding Authors: ['Thanh-Dat Truong' 'Hoang-Quan Nguyen' 'Xuan-Bac Nguyen' 'Ashley P. G. Dowling' 'Xin Li' 'Khoa Luu'] Multimodal conversational generative AI has shown impressive capabilities in various vision and language understanding through learning massive textimage data. However…