Mitochondrial metagenomics: letting the genes out of the bottle

A Crampton-Platt, DW Yu, X Zhou, AP Vogler - GigaScience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Mitochondrial metagenomics'(MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of
total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial …

Insect mitochondrial genomics: A decade of progress

SL Cameron - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The past decade has seen the availability of insect genomic data explode, with
mitochondrial (mt) genome data seeing the greatest growth. The widespread adoption of …

Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators

RJ Gill, KCR Baldock, MJF Brown, JE Cresswell… - Advances in ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing
significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Sequence capture and phylogenetic utility of genomic ultraconserved elements obtained from pinned insect specimens

BB Blaimer, MW Lloyd, WX Guillory, SG Brady - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Obtaining sequence data from historical museum specimens has been a growing research
interest, invigorated by next-generation sequencing methods that allow inputs of highly …

Capturing the phylogeny of Holometabola with mitochondrial genome data and Bayesian site-heterogeneous mixture models

F Song, H Li, P Jiang, X Zhou, J Liu… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
After decades of debate, a mostly satisfactory resolution of relationships among the 11
recognized holometabolan orders of insects has been reached based on nuclear genes …

Anchored hybrid enrichment-based phylogenomics of leafhoppers and treehoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea)

CH Dietrich, JM Allen, AR Lemmon… - Insect Systematics …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A data set comprising DNA sequences from 388 loci and> 99,000 aligned nucleotide
positions, generated using anchored hybrid enrichment, was used to estimate relationships …

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

Amplification and sequencing of entire tick mitochondrial genomes for a phylogenomic analysis

AR Kneubehl, S Muñoz-Leal, S Filatov, DG De Klerk… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) has proven to be important for the taxonomy,
systematics, and population genetics of ticks. However, current methods to generate …

Genome skimming is a low-cost and robust strategy to assemble complete mitochondrial genomes from ethanol preserved specimens in biodiversity studies

B Trevisan, DMC Alcantara, DJ Machado… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Global loss of biodiversity is an ongoing process that concerns both local and global
authorities. Studies of biodiversity mainly involve traditional methods using morphological …