Michael F. Whiting

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of the polyneopteran orders representing a broad range of their phylogenetic diversity and including the recently described Mantophasmatodea, which supports a sister taxon relationship between the newly described Mantophonodea and Grylloblattodea.

TL;DR: Six new complete mitochondrial genome descriptions are presented, including a representative of each suborder, and the evolution of mtgenomes from a comparative framework using all available coleopteran mt Genomes is analyzed.

TL;DR: A robust phylogeny of Orthoptera is established including 36 of 40 families representing all 15 currently recognized superfamilies and based on complete mitochondrial genomes and four nuclear loci, in order to test previous phylogenetic hypotheses and to provide a framework for a natural classification and a reference for studying the pattern of divergence and diversification.

TL;DR: This analysis supports Tungidae as the most basal flea lineage, sister group to the remainder of the extant fleas, and the first formal analysis of flea relationships based on a molecular matrix of four loci for 128 flea taxa from around the world.

TL;DR: It is asserted, long‐branch attraction cannot explain the presence of nematocysts in Myxozoa and halteres in Strepsiptera, and it is suggested that maximum likelihood methods are extremely sensitive to taxon and character sampling and that these data sets are demonstrative of the long-branch repulsion problem.