Beyond chemoreception: diverse tasks of soluble olfactory proteins in insects

P Pelosi, I Iovinella, J Zhu, G Wang… - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Odorant‐binding proteins (OBPs) and chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are regarded as
carriers of pheromones and odorants in insect chemoreception. These proteins are typically …

An introduction to phylosymbiosis

SJ Lim, SR Bordenstein - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phylosymbiosis was recently formulated to support a hypothesis-driven framework for the
characterization of a new, cross-system trend in host-associated microbiomes. Defining …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera

RS Peters, L Krogmann, C Mayer, A Donath, S Gunkel… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, and bees) are one of four mega-diverse
insect orders, comprising more than 153,000 described and possibly up to one million …

[HTML][HTML] Phylosymbiosis: relationships and functional effects of microbial communities across host evolutionary history

AW Brooks, KD Kohl, RM Brucker, EJ van Opstal… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby
the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees

MG Branstetter, BN Danforth, JP Pitts, BC Faircloth… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

B Misof, S Liu, K Meusemann, RS Peters, A Donath… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

Field-effect tunneling transistor based on vertical graphene heterostructures

L Britnell, RV Gorbachev, R Jalil, BD Belle, F Schedin… - Science, 2012 - science.org
An obstacle to the use of graphene as an alternative to silicon electronics has been the
absence of an energy gap between its conduction and valence bands, which makes it …

[HTML][HTML] MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects

C Holt, M Yandell - BMC bioinformatics, 2011 - Springer
Background Second-generation sequencing technologies are precipitating major shifts with
regards to what kinds of genomes are being sequenced and how they are annotated. While …

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms

NR Casewell, W Wüster, FJ Vonk, RA Harrison… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Venoms have evolved on numerous occasions throughout the animal kingdom. These
'biochemical weapon systems' typically function to facilitate, or protect the producing animal …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants

SA Smith, MJ Moore, JW Brown, Y Yang - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The use of transcriptomic and genomic datasets for phylogenetic reconstruction
has become increasingly common as researchers attempt to resolve recalcitrant nodes with …