Showing papers by "José Luis Navarrete-Heredia published in 2014"
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation1, Rutgers University2, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies3, University of Jena4, University of Bonn5, University of Vienna6, Naturhistorisches Museum7, University of Tsukuba8, Landcare Research9, Johns Hopkins University10, University of Hamburg11, Ehime University12, Florida Museum of Natural History13, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart14, Macquarie University15, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center16, Australian National University17, American Museum of Natural History18, University of Memphis19, University of Guadalajara20, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities21, Natural History Museum22, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology23, California Academy of Sciences24, South China Agricultural University25, North Carolina State University26, Hokkaido University27
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.
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.
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01 Jan 2014
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.
Abstract: Toward an insect evolution resolution Insects 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. Misof et 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 The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified. 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.
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TL;DR: The specific richness of Mexican Staphylinidae was studied in this paper. But the authors focused on the specific diversity of Mexican staphilinids and did not provide any specific taxa.
Abstract: We provide information on the specific richness of Mexican Staphylinidae. Brief comments on the biology are included, as well as the number of species by subfamily and by Mexican state, and the number of endemic species. We recognize 1 656 species recorded from Mexico with Staphylininae as the subfamily with highest specific richness: 386 species. Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas remain as the richest Mexican states that contain also the highest numbers of endemic species. "Genera et species staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae" and the "Biologia Centrali-Americana" are recognized as key works for the development of our knowledge of Mexican staphylinids. This paper is an update of the Mexican Staphylinidae diversity based primarily on the "Illustrated guide to the genera of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of Mexico".
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01 Jan 2014
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01 Jan 2014
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TL;DR: This paper records for the first time Germarostes (Haroldostes) viridulus (Bates, 1887)viridulus from the state of Jalisco.
Abstract: Fieldwork undertaken with carrion traps in Cerro de García, Jalisco, Mexico (as part of the Western Transverse Volcanic Belt System) has recorded one new scarab beetle species from the state. Based on specific richness, Jalisco ranks fourth in Mexico, with 336 recorded species (Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2001; Navarrete-Heredia and Deloya 2005; Morón and Márquez 2012). In this paper, we record for the first time Germarostes (Haroldostes) viridulus (Bates, 1887) from the state of Jalisco.
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