Works (12)
Updated: February 26th, 2024 08:10
2023 journal article
Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1).
TL;DR:
An origin of mosquitoes in the early Triassic is supported, considerably older than previous estimates and that mosquito diversification and host-use patterns within major lineages appear to coincide in earth history both with major continental drift events and with the diversification of vertebrate classes.
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www.nature.com (publisher PDF)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 20, 2023
2022 review
The evolution of sour taste
author keywords: sour; evolution; taste; acidity; fermentation
MeSH headings : Animals; Humans; Phylogeny; Taste
TL;DR:
Why sour taste evolved, why it might have persisted as vertebrates made the transition to land and what factors might have favoured the preference for sour-tasting, acidic foods, particularly in hominins, such as humans are considered.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: February 21, 2022
2021 journal article
Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics
BMC BIOLOGY, 19(1).
author keywords: Diptera; Phylogenomics; Transcriptomes; Drosophilidae; Tephritidae
TL;DR:
Dividing most acalyptrate fly groups into four major lineages is supported consistently across analyses, and understanding the fundamental branching patterns of schizophoran flies provides a foundation for future comparative research on the genetics, ecology, and biocontrol.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 8, 2021
2021 journal article
Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
CLADISTICS, 37(3), 276–297.
author keywords: Diptera; divergence times reconstruction; lower Brachycera; maximum likelihood
MeSH headings : Animals; Bees / classification; Bees / genetics; Bees / physiology; Biodiversity; Evolution, Molecular; Larva / genetics; Larva / physiology; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Transcriptome
TL;DR:
The dating analyses indicate a Jurassic origin of the Bombyliidae, with the sand chamber evolving early in bee fly evolution, in the late Jurassic or mid‐Cretaceous, and it is hypothesized that the angiosperm radiation and the hothouse climate established during the late Cretaceous accelerated the diversification of bee flies.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2020
2014 journal article
Ubiquity and Diversity of Human-Associated Demodex Mites
PLOS ONE, 9(8).
Contributors: M. Thoemmes n, D. Fergus n, J. Urban *, n & R. Dunn n
MeSH headings : Adolescent; Adult; Animals; Female; Genes, rRNA; Genetic Variation; Hair Follicle / parasitology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mite Infestations / epidemiology; Mites / classification; Mites / genetics; Phylogeny; Prevalence; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics; Sebaceous Glands / parasitology; United States / epidemiology
TL;DR:
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.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity
BIOSCIENCE, 63(7), 524–535.
Contributors: M. Gavin, C. Botero n, C. Bowern *, R. Colwell *, M. Dunn *, R. Dunn n , R. Gray *, K. Kirby *
author keywords: linguistic diversity; biogeography and ecology; geographic patterns; research methods; languages
TL;DR:
It is suggested that future analyses should account for interactions among causal factors, the lack of spatial and phylogenetic independence of the data, and transitory patterns, and future modeling approaches should also evaluate how the outcomes of these processes are influenced by demography, environmental heterogeneity, and time.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Tracing the Rise of Ants - Out of the Ground
PLOS ONE, 8(12).
Contributors: A. Lucky n, n, B. Guenard n, M. Weiser n & R. Dunn n
MeSH headings : Animals; Ants; Ecosystem; Evolution, Molecular; Hot Temperature; Phylogeny; Plant Leaves; Soil; Statistics as Topic
TL;DR:
This work reconstructs the habitat transitions of crown-group ants through time, focusing on where they nest and forage (in the canopy, litter, or soil), and shows that in contrast to the current consensus based on verbal arguments that ants evolved in tropical leaf litter, the soil is supported as the ancestral stratum of all ants.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 review
A view from the edge of the forest: recent progress in understanding the relationships of the insect orders
[Review of ]. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, 51, 79–87.
author keywords: Dictyoptera; holometabola; insecta; Palaeoptera; Paraneoptera; Polyneoptera
TL;DR:
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.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 article
Advances in Insect Phylogeny at the Dawn of the Postgenomic Era
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY, VOL 57, Vol. 57, pp. 449-+.
author keywords: Holometabola; Hexapoda; Palaeoptera; Polyneoptera; next-generation sequencing; phylogenomics
MeSH headings : Animals; Genome, Insect; Insecta / classification; Insecta / genetics; Phylogeny
TL;DR:
A review of the current consensus of insect relationships provides a foundation for comparative study and offers a framework to evaluate incoming genomic evidence.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(14), 5690–5695.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
A multigene phylogeny of the fly superfamily Asiloidea (Insecta): Taxon sampling and additional genes reveal the sister-group to all higher flies (Cyclorrhapha)
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 56(3), 918–930.
author keywords: Diptera; Asiloidea; Apystomyia; Eremoneura; Cyclorrhapha; Taxon sampling; Rogue taxa; Rapid radiation; Four-cluster likelihood mapping; Additional genes; Topological stability; Congruence
MeSH headings : Animals; Cluster Analysis; DNA, Ribosomal / genetics; Diptera / classification; Diptera / genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Insect; Likelihood Functions; Nuclear Proteins / genetics; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA
TL;DR:
This work uses the nuclear protein-coding gene CAD and 28S rDNA to test the monophyly of Asiloidea and to resolve its relationship to Eremoneura, finding that the 'asiloid' genus Apystomyia is sister to Cyclorrhapha and the remaining asiloids are monophyletic at the exclusion of the family Bombyliidae.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 journal article
Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects
BMC BIOLOGY, 7.
MeSH headings : Animals; Base Sequence; Bayes Theorem; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Insect; Hymenoptera / genetics; Insecta / classification; Insecta / genetics; Insecta / growth & development; Likelihood Functions; Metamorphosis, Biological / genetics; Phylogeny
TL;DR:
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.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
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