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Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli, John F. Lawrence + 13 more
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived at considerably incongruent topologies and widely varying estimates of divergence dates for major beetle clades. Here, we use a dataset of 68…
Chenjing Zhao, Mengting Huang, Ding Yang, Xingyue Liu
Simple Summary Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis, collectively known as Holometabola, are the most successful lineage of living organism, including about 830,000 species. Understanding the intricate relationships among the major groups of holometabolous insects is a critical task in systematic biology…
Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich, Andrew F. Hugall, Devi Stuart-Fox
The increasing availability of large phylogenies has provided new opportunities to study the evolution of species traits, their origins and diversification, and biogeography; yet, with the exception of butterflies, taxonomically well-curated phylogenies are currently lacking for major insect groups. Bees (Hymenoptera…
Shiyu Du, Erik Tihelka, Daoyuan Yu, Wan-Jun Chen + 5 more
Insects represent the most diverse animal group, yet previous phylogenetic analyses based on the morphological and molecular data have failed to agree on the evolutionary relationships of early insects and their six-legged relatives (together constituting the clade Hexapoda). In particular, the phylogenetic positions…
Léo Laborieux, Richard J. Knecht, William F. Fagan, Nathan J. Sanders + 1 more
Elemental composition links organismal physiology to biogeochemical cycles, yet the relative importance of evolutionary and ecological drivers remains unresolved for insects. Integrating a global stoichiometric database with a comprehensive phylogenetic backbone, we demonstrate hierarchical control of insect…
Zhiteng Chen
The rapid advancement of sequencing technologies has revolutionized our understanding of the phylogeny and evolution of insects, enabling researchers to generate extensive molecular data with unprecedented detail. The Special Issue “Genetics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Insects” brings together 11 original research…
Zixuan Liu, Kaijie Yu, Chun He, Xiaoxu Cai + 4 more
Morphological traits provide important evidence for phylogenetic reconstruction and evolutionary relationship analysis. Recent image-based approaches have introduced deep learning, particularly convolutional models, to derive morphological features from specimen images, but these methods generally rely on…
Silvia Gisondi, Eliana Buenaventura, Arn Rytter Jensen, John O. Stireman III + 4 more
'John O. Stireman III' 'Silvio S. Nihei' 'Thomas Pape' 'Pierfilippo Cerretti' 'Feng ZHANG'] Phylogenetic relationships within the oestroid subclades Rhinophorinae (Calliphoridae) and Polleniidae were reconstructed for the first time, applying a Sanger sequencing approach using the two protein-coding nuclear markers CAD…
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…
Yan-Da Li, Michael S. Engel, Erik Tihelka, Chenyang Cai
Weevils represent one of the most prolific radiations of beetles and the most diverse group of herbivores on land. The phylogeny of weevils (Curculionoidea) has received extensive attention, and a largely satisfactory framework for their interfamilial relationships has been established. However, a recent phylogenomic…
Xuankun Li, Adriana E. Marvaldi, Rolf G. Oberprieler, Dave Clarke + 8 more
The rise of angiosperms to ecological dominance and the breakup of Gondwana during the Mesozoic marked major transitions in the evolutionary history of insect-plant interactions. To elucidate how contemporary trophic interactions were influenced by host plant shifts and palaeogeographical events, we integrated…
Pedro Heringer, Gustavo C. S. Kuhn
In a previous study we described a Helitron transposon that apparently became one of the segments in the symbiotic Cotesia vestalis bracovirus (CvBV) from the parasitoid wasp C. vestalis. We presented evidence that this Helitron, named Hel_c35, invaded the C. vestalis genome through a horizontal transfer (HT) event…
Man Qin, Liyun Jiang, Gexia Qiao, Jing Chen + 1 more
Insects harbor diverse assemblages of bacterial and fungal symbionts, which play crucial roles in host life history. Insects and their various symbionts represent a good model for studying host-microbe interactions. Phylosymbiosis is used to describe an eco-evolutionary pattern, providing a new cross-system trend in…
Héloïse Bastide, Hélène Legout, Noé Dogbo, David Ogereau + 9 more
The nests of social insects often harbor a rich fauna of intruders known as inquilines.^1^ Social inquilines are usually closely-related to their host due to potential genetic predispositions,^2,3^ but how phylogenetically distant non-social inquilines adapt to their hosts remains unclear. Here, we analyzed the genome…
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…
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…
Paige Banks, Emma M. Funkhouser, Angie M. Macias, Brian Lovett + 8 more
Millipedes have long been known to produce a diverse array of chemical defense agents that deter predation. These compounds, or their precursors, are stored in high concentration within glands (ozadenes) and are released upon disturbance. The subterclass Colobognatha contains four orders of millipedes, all of which are…