Lili Zhou

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: The ability of the new Illumina PCR-free pipeline for DNA metabarcoding to detect small arthropod specimens and its tendency to avoid most, if not all, false positives suggests its great potential in biodiversity-related surveillance, such as in biomonitoring programs.

TL;DR: A new Illumina‐based pipeline to recover full‐length COI barcodes from mixed arthropod samples and more species‐level operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from bulk insect samples is presented, with fewer untraceable (novel) OTUs.

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: This study provides a pathway for rapidly identifying cotton pollen-specific genes that respond to HT stress and found that the late stage of anther included more anther- and pollen- specific genes (APSGs).