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The honey bee made the cover

How have the gut symbiotic bacteria of the honey bee evolved from free-living to a core bacterium? Our investigation on the genomics of...

Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

Understanding the relationships among rhinoceros species and when they diverged has been a question addressed by evolutionary biologists...

Gene reuse enabled rapid parallel diversification of the Asian honeybee

Honeybees are key pollinators with diverse diets, accustomed to a wide range of habitats that are characterized by variable flora. Many...

1KITE: Orthoptera

1KITE Orthoptera Song*, S., O. Béthoux, S. Shin, A. Donath, H. Letsch, S. Liu, D. McKenna, G. Meng, K. Meusemann, B. Misof, L....

1KITE: Neuropterida

Vasilikopoulos, A. #*, B. Misof #*, K. Meusemann, D. Lieberz, T. Flouri, R. G. Beutel, O. Niehuis, T. Wappler, J. Rust, R. S. Peters, A....

Multi-gene phylogeny reveals case lost in the caddisflies

Contrary to a recent molecular phylogeny study, our new study suggested that Annulipalpia (retreat makers) formed the basal lineage of...

1KITE: Dermaptera

Wipfler, B., W. Koehler, P. B. Frandsen, A. Donath, S. Liu, R. Machida, B. Misof, R. S. Peters, S. Shimizu, X. Zhou, and S. Simon. 2020....

Diversity of insect viruses revealed by 1243 1KITE transcriptomes

1KITE-Virus Käfer, S.#, S. Paraskevopoulou#, F. Zirkel, N. Wieseke, A. Donath, M. Petersen, T. C. Jones, S. Liu, X. Zhou, M. Middendorf,...

How come so many beetles live on plants?

1KITE-Coleoptera：multiple horizontal gene transfer events may have enabled the diversification of phytophagous beetles. McKenna*#, D. D.,...

Food or predator, which one has been driving the evolution of moths and butterflies?

1KITE-Lepidoptera Kawahara, A. Y.*, D. Plotkin, M. Espeland, K. Meusemann, E. F.A. Toussaint, A. Donath, F. Gimnich, P. B. Frandsen, A....