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...
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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....