Tanja Ziesmann

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 combination of well-resolved phylogenies obtained by phylogenomic analyses and well-documented extensive morphological datasets is an appropriate basis for reconstructing complex morphological transformations and for the inference of evolutionary histories.

TL;DR: A strategy of implementing constrained tree searches is suggested, which allow larger datasets to dictate the backbone phylogeny, while the barcode data fill out the tips of the tree.

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: It is shown that male-specific traits do indeed accumulate deleterious mutations as expected by theory, and provides an excellent starting point for detailed study of the genomics of neutral and selected trait decay.