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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 A...

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. Podsiadlow...

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 th...

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. Zw...

How did stick/leaf insects become sticks and leafs

1KITE: Phasmatodea Simon, S., H. Letsch, S. Bank, T. R. Buckley, A. Donath, S. Liu, R. Machida, K. Meusemann, B. Misof, L. Podsiadlowski,...

What's in my pollen?

In our recent paper, a direct shotgun sequencing based approach (genome skimming) enabled quantitative measurement of pollen composition....

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