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Bernhard Misof1, Shanlin Liu2, Karen Meusemann3, Ralph S Peters4, Alexander Donath5, Christoph Mayer5, Paul B Frandsen6, Jessica Ware7, Tomáš Flouri8, Rolf G Beutel9, Oliver Niehuis5, Malte Petersen5, Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco8, Torsten Wappler10, Jes Rust10, Andre J Aberer8, Ulrike Aspöck11, Horst Aspöck12, Daniela Bartel13, Alexander Blanke14, Simon Berger8, Alexander Böhm13, Thomas R Buckley15, Brett Calcott16, Junqing Chen17, Frank Friedrich18, Makiko Fukui19, Mari Fujita20, Carola Greve5, Peter Grobe5, Shengchang Gu17, Ying Huang2, Lars S Jermiin21, Akito Y Kawahara22, Lars Krogmann23, Martin Kubiak18, Robert Lanfear24, Harald Letsch25, Yiyuan Li2, Zhenyu Li17, Jiguang Li17, Haorong Lu17, Ryuichiro Machida20, Yuta Mashimo20, Pashalia Kapli26, Duane D McKenna27, Guanliang Meng2, Yasutaka Nakagaki20, José Luis Navarrete-Heredia28, Michael Ott29, Yanxiang Ou17, Günther Pass13, Lars Podsiadlowski30, Hans Pohl9, Björn M von Reumont31, Kai Schütte32, Kaoru Sekiya20, Shota Shimizu20, Adam Slipinski33, Alexandros Stamatakis34, Wenhui Song2, Xu Su2, Nikolaus U Szucsich13, Meihua Tan2, Xuemei Tan17, Min Tang2, Jingbo Tang17, Gerald Timelthaler13, Shigekazu Tomizuka20, Michelle Trautwein35, Xiaoli Tong36, Toshiki Uchifune37, Manfred G Walzl13, Brian M Wiegmann38, Jeanne Wilbrandt5, Benjamin Wipfler9, Thomas K F Wong21, Qiong Wu2, Gengxiong Wu17, Yinlong Xie17, Shenzhou Yang2, Qing Yang2, David K Yeates33, Kazunori Yoshizawa39, Qing Zhang2, Rui Zhang2, Wenwei Zhang17, Yunhui Zhang17, Jing Zhao2, Chengran Zhou2, Lili Zhou2, Tanja Ziesmann5, Shijie Zou17, Yingrui Li17, Xun Xu17, Yong Zhang2, Huanming Yang17, Jian Wang17, Jun Wang40, Karl M Kjer41, Xin Zhou42.
Abstract
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein-coding genes. Phylogenomic analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, with site-specific nucleotide or domain-specific amino acid substitution models, produced statistically robust and congruent results resolving previously controversial phylogenetic relations hips. We dated the origin of insects to the Early Ordovician [~479 million years ago (Ma)], of insect flight to the Early Devonian (~406 Ma), of major extant lineages to the Mississippian (~345 Ma), and the major diversification of holometabolous insects to the Early Cretaceous. Our phylogenomic study provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.Mesh:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25378627 DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728