Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution
- B. Misof, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou
- BiologyScience
- 7 November 2014
The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified and provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life
- B. Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein, D. Yeates
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 14 March 2011
It is demonstrated that flies experienced three episodes of rapid radiation—lower Diptera (220 Ma), lower Brachycera (180 Ma), and Schizophora (65 Ma)—and a number of life history transitions to hematophagy, phytophagy and parasitism in the history of fly evolution over 260 million y.
Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects
- B. Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein, D. Yeates
- BiologyBMC Biology
- 24 June 2009
Evidence from nucleotide sequences of six single-copy nuclear protein coding genes used to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships and estimate evolutionary divergence times is presented, finding strong support for a close relationship between Coleoptera (beetles) and Strepsiptera, a previously proposed, but analytically controversial relationship.
Advances in insect phylogeny at the dawn of the postgenomic era.
- Michelle Trautwein, B. Wiegmann, R. Beutel, K. Kjer, D. Yeates
- BiologyAnnual Review of Entomology
- 2012
A review of the current consensus of insect relationships provides a foundation for comparative study and offers a framework to evaluate incoming genomic evidence.
Arthropods of the great indoors: characterizing diversity inside urban and suburban homes
- Matthew A. Bertone, M. Leong, K. Bayless, Tara L F Malow, R. Dunn, Michelle Trautwein
- Biology, Environmental SciencePeerJ
- 19 January 2016
High diversity was discovered, with a conservative estimate range of 32–211 morphospecies, and 24–128 distinct arthropod families per house, and some of the most frequently found arthropods in houses are unfamiliar to the general public despite their ubiquity.
Biodiversity and socioeconomics in the city: a review of the luxury effect
- M. Leong, R. Dunn, Michelle Trautwein
- Environmental ScienceBiology Letters
- 1 May 2018
The ecological dynamics of cities are influenced not only by geophysical and biological factors, but also by aspects of human society, and a pattern of higher biodiversity in affluent neighbourhoods has been termed ‘the luxury effect'.
Ubiquity and Diversity of Human-Associated Demodex Mites
- Megan S. Thoemmes, D. Fergus, J. Urban, Michelle Trautwein, R. Dunn
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 27 August 2014
A phylogenetic analysis of 18S rDNA reveals intraspecific structure within one of the two named human-associated Demodex species, D. brevis, suggesting that new lineages are likely to be discovered as humans from additional geographic regions are sampled.
A view from the edge of the forest : recent progress in understanding the relationships of the insect orders
- D. Yeates, S. Cameron, Michelle Trautwein
- Biology
- 1 May 2012
The enigmatic order Strepsiptera, the twisted wing insects, have now been placed firmly near Coleoptera, rejecting their close relationship to Diptera that was proposed some 15years ago primarily based on ribosomal DNA data.
A multigene phylogeny of the fly superfamily Asiloidea (Insecta): Taxon sampling and additional genes reveal the sister-group to all higher flies (Cyclorrhapha).
- Michelle Trautwein, B. Wiegmann, D. Yeates
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 September 2010
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