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Team presented in 2018 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of China
Five talks in 2 days. Big congratulations to Lizhen for receiving a second place in the Best Student Talk!


Metabarcoding or genome-skimming?
How do they perform on benthic macro-invertebrates? Here is the results. Bista, I.*, G. R. Carvalho, M. Tang, K. Walsh, X. Zhou, M....


Congratulations to Lizhen for her successful defense
Big congrats to Lizhen for finishing up with her Ms program and staying with us for PhD. Have fun with the AMPs!

Phylogenomics not supporting monophyly of Syrphoidea
The recent study from 1KITE using more than 3000 genes from 19 taxa concluded a phylogeny where Pipunculidae is the sister taxon to...

Co-expressed virus can infer host splicing codes
A great diversity of viruses have co-occured with insect hosts, taking advances of the cellular machinery of the host, including...

Evolutionary dynamics of OXPHOS genes in Hymenoptera
Mitochondrion is the major energy production organelle in eukaryotes, generating more than 70% of the ATPs through the OXPHOS pathway,...


Xin Zhou awarded for the 2017 Chou Io Award for Insect Taxonomy
The award is named after one of the greatest Chinese entomologists, Prof. Chou Io, who made significant contribution to the early...


Phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps
We used a phylogenomic approach to inferring chalcidoid wasp phylogenetic relationships and provided the first molecular clock-based...


Full-length barcodes for 1$
We developed a new pipeline based on Illumina sequencing platform and SOAPBarcode program to produce full-length COI barcodes at just...


How did vespid wasps evolve?
Vespid wasps is a diverse hymenopteran lineage including a wide range of life history strategies. The recent study from the 1KITE helped...
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