How did stick/leaf insects become sticks and leafs1KITE: 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....
Biodiversity Science: special issue on Biodiversity GenomicsThanks to all contributing authors, we managed to organize 9 papers in this very first special issue on biodiversity genomics! The topics...
Congratulations to Dandan, Wenjun and Yating for the successful defense!It's the time of the year again. Hope for the best for all of you.
New toys!The CAU-NextOmics Joint Laboratory of Insect Genomics celebrated its grant opening! Having fun with Nanopore.
Insects started flying on landPhylogenomics suggested that early flying insects probably started on land habitat, NOT aquatic. Wipfler, B.*#, H. Letsch#, P. B....
Phylogenomics of the hemipteroids1KITE-Paraneoptera: Johnson, K. P.*, C. H. Dietrich, F. Friedrich, R. G. Beutel, B. Wipfler, R. S. Peters, J. M. Allen, M. Petersen, A....
The genome of a retreat-making caddisflyThe caddisfly Stenopsyche tienmushanensis Hwang was among the first described trichopterans by Chinese researchers. Sixty years after its...