Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570
• Publication Date: 2014-11-06T19:10:21Z
• Authors: Bernhard Misof; Shanlin Liu; Karen Meusemann; Ralph S. Peters; Alexander Donath; Christoph Mayer; Paul B. Frandsen; Jessica Ware; Tomáš Flouri; Rolf G. Beutel; Oliver Niehuis; Malte Petersen; Fernando Izquierd...; Torsten Wappler; Jes Rust; Andre J. Aberer; Ulrike Aspöck; Horst Aspöck; Daniela Bartel; Alexander Blanke; Simon Berger; Alexander Böhm; Thomas R. Buckley; Brett Calcott; Junqing Chen; Frank Friedrich; Makiko Fukui; Mari Fujita; Carola Greve; Peter Grobe; Shengchang Gu; Ying Huang; Lars S. Jermiin; Akito Y. Kawahara; Lars Krogmann; Martin Kubiak; Robert Lanfear; Harald Letsch; Yiyuan Li; Zhenyu Li; Jiguang Li; Haorong Lu; Ryuichiro Machida; Yuta Mashimo; Pashalia Kapli; Duane D. McKenna; Guanliang Meng; Yasutaka Nakagaki; José Luis Navarre...; Michael Ott; Yanxiang Ou; Günther Pass; Lars Podsiadlowski; Hans Pohl; Björn M. von Reumont; Kai Schütte; Kaoru Sekiya; Shota Shimizu; Adam Slipinski; Alexandros Stamat...; Wenhui Song; Xu Su; Nikolaus U. Szucsich; Meihua Tan; Xuemei Tan; Min Tang; Jingbo Tang; Gerald Timelthaler; Shigekazu Tomizuka; Michelle Trautwein; Xiaoli Tong; Toshiki Uchifune; Manfred G. Walzl; Brian M. Wiegmann; Jeanne Wilbrandt; Benjamin Wipfler; Thomas K. F. Wong; Qiong Wu; Gengxiong Wu; Yinlong Xie; Shenzhou Yang; Qing Yang; David K. Yeates; Kazunori Yoshizawa; Qing Zhang; Rui Zhang; Wenwei Zhang; Yunhui Zhang; Jing Zhao; Chengran Zhou; Lili Zhou; Tanja Ziesmann; Shijie Zou; Yingrui Li; Xun Xu; Yong Zhang; Huanming Yang; Jian Wang; Jun Wang; Karl M. Kjer; Xin Zhou
• Keywords: ddc:004; 0301 basic medicine; Multidisciplinary; 106014 Genomics; Insecta; Time Factors; DATA processing & computer science; 106047 Animal ecology; Genome, Insect; 106033 Phylogeny; Genomics; 004; 106001 General biology; 03 medical and health sciences; Genetic Code; 106033 Phylogenie; 106014 Genomik; 106047 Tierökologie; Animals; Insect Proteins; 106001 Allgemeine Biologie; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/004; Phylogeny; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/500

Toward an insect evolution resolutionInsects are the most diverse group of animals, with the largest number of species. However, many of the evolutionary relationships between insect species have been controversial and difficult to resolve. Misofet al.performed a phylogenomic analysis of protein-coding genes from all major insect orders and close relatives, resolving the placement of taxa. The authors used this resolved phylogenetic tree together with fossil analysis to date the origin of insects to ~479 million years ago and to resolve long-controversial subjects in insect phylogeny.Science, this issue p.763