Wenhui Song

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 novel multiplex sequencing and assembly pipeline allowing for simultaneous acquisition of full mitogenomes from pooled animals without DNA enrichment or amplification is developed and demonstrates the plausibility of a multi-locus mito-metagenomics approach as the next phase of the current single- locus metabarcoding method.

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: Some convergence in gene-specific selection pressures associated with flight ability is supported, and the exploratory analysis provided some new insights into gene categories potentially associated with the gain and loss of flight in insects.

TL;DR: A novel approach to characterizing viral AS using whole transcriptome dataset from host species and when applied to large-scale transcriptomics projects with diverse taxonomic sampling is expected to rapidly expand knowledge on RNA splicing mechanisms for a wide range of viruses.