Gerald Timelthaler

TL;DR: The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified and provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of protein-coding genes from all major insect orders and close relatives was performed by Misof et al. as discussed by the authors, who used this resolved phylogenetic tree together with fossil analysis to date the origin of insects to ~479 million years ago and to resolve longcontroversial subjects in insect phylogeny.

TL;DR: In this paper , a focused genetic screen targeting 32 DNA repair factors, spanning all reported repair pathways, was carried out to determine which cellular factors affect PE efficiency, and it was shown that ablation of mismatch repair (MMR) affords a 2-17 fold increase in PE efficiency across several human cell lines, types of edits and genomic loci.

TL;DR: The study clearly demonstrates that the tricky morphological taxonomy in Protura has a solid biological background and that accurate species delimitation is possible using both markers, COI and 28S rDNA.

TL;DR: In this paper, the DNA barcoding region of the mitochondrial COI gene and a fragment of the nuclear 28S rDNA (Divergent Domain 2 and 3) were examined with 103 proturan specimens, collected primarily in Austria, with additional samples from China and Japan.