Highlights•A quantitative overview of blowfly genetic resources reveals stark knowledge
gaps•Enhanced blowfly genomic data improves species identification, systematics and …

We present entire sequences of two hymenopteran mitochondrial genomes and the major
portion of three others. We combined these data with nine previously sequenced …

True flies are insects of the order Diptera and encompass one of the most diverse groups of
animals on Earth. Within dipterans, Schizophora represents a recent radiation of insects that …

The evolutionary dynamics and phylogenetic utility of mitochondrial genomes
(mitogenomes) have been of particular interest to systematists and evolutionary biologists …

Background The complete sequences of the mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) of members of
the northern and southern genotypes of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) darlingi were used for …

Background Mitochondrial genomes provide useful genetic markers for systematic and
population genetic studies of parasitic helminths. Although many such genome sequences …

The Tachinidae is one of the most speciose families in Diptera, and the exclusively
parasitoid species play an important role in regulating populations of many herbivorous …

The availability of complete mitochondrial genome (mtgenome) data for Diptera, one of the
largest metazoan orders, in public databases is limited. The advent of high throughput …

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of bumblebees (Bombus) has been widely used for
phylogenetic studies, but its evolution is still underexplored. Here we report a …

We describe here the successful coupling of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and
high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis to rapidly identify 15 forensically important species …