Genome of the Parasitoid Wasp Diachasma alloeum, an Emerging Model for Ecological Speciation and Transitions to Asexual Reproduction

The Toxicogenome of Hyalella azteca: A Model for Sediment Ecotoxicology and Evolutionary Toxicology

(2018) Helen C. Poynton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Genome Report: Whole Genome Sequence of the Parasitoid Wasp Microplitis demolitor That Harbors an Endogenous Virus Mutualist

(2018) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Quantifying the unquantifiable: why Hymenoptera, not Coleoptera, is the most speciose animal order

(2018) Andrew A. Forbes et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Genomes of the Hymenoptera

(2018) Michael G Branstetter et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Genome sequence of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus, representing an early-branching lineage of the Hymenoptera, illuminates evolution of hymenopteran chemoreceptors

(2018) Hugh M Robertson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Sex loss in insects: causes of asexuality and consequences for genomes

(2018) Eric S Tvedte et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Revisiting the particular role of host shifts in initiating insect speciation

(2017) Andrew A. Forbes et al.   EVOLUTION

Retention of Core Meiotic Genes Across Diverse Hymenoptera

(2017) Eric S Tvedte et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Sex pheromone of a coccoid insect with sexual and asexual lineages: fate of an ancestrally essential sexual signal in parthenogenetic females

(2017) Jun Tabata et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Evolutionary History of Chemosensory-Related Gene Families across the Arthropoda

(2017) Seong-il Eyun et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Identification of odorant binding proteins and chemosensory proteins in Microplitis mediator as well as functional characterization of chemosensory protein 3

(2017) Yong Peng et al.   PLoS One

Cloning and expression profile of ionotropic receptors in the parasitoid wasp Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

(2016) Shan-Ning Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Organization and function of Drosophila odorant binding proteins

(2016) Nikki K Larter et al.   eLife

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Insect Chemoreceptor Superfamily Is Ancient in Animals

(2015) Hugh M. Robertson   CHEMICAL SENSES

Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality

(2015) Xiaofan Zhou et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Sequential divergence and the multiplicative origin of community diversity

(2015) Glen R. Hood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A cnidarian homologue of an insect gustatory receptor functions in developmental body patterning

(2015) Michael Saina et al.   Nature Communications

On the fate of sexual traits under asexuality

(2014) Casper J. van der Kooi et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

(2014) Christine G Elsik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genetics of decayed sexual traits in a parasitoid wasp with endosymbiont-induced asexuality

(2014) W-J Ma et al.   HEREDITY

The i5k Workspace@NAL—enabling genomic data access, visualization and curation of arthropod genomes

(2014) Monica Poelchau et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

PASTEC: An Automatic Transposable Element Classification Tool

(2014) Claire Hoede et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of insect olfactory receptors

(2014) Christine Missbach et al.   eLife

Soluble proteins of chemical communication: an overview across arthropods

(2014) Paolo Pelosi et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Ionotropic Receptors (IRs): Chemosensory ionotropic glutamate receptors in Drosophila and beyond

(2013) Raphael Rytz et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Niche differentiation and colonization of a novel environment by an asexual parasitic wasp

(2013) A. A. Forbes et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

Characterization of an Ancient Lepidopteran Lateral Gene Transfer

(2013) David Wheeler et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Distribution and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Sex Determination Genes doublesex and transformer in Insects

(2013) E. Geuverink et al.   Sexual Development

Unique Features of Odorant-Binding Proteins of the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis Revealed by Genome Annotation and Comparative Analyses

(2012) Filipe G. Vieira et al.   PLoS One

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Chemosensory Receptors in a Pair of Divergent Ant Species Reveals Sex-Specific Signatures of Odor Coding

(2012) Xiaofan Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

(2012) Ruibang Luo et al.   GigaScience

Comparative Genomics of the Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Protein Gene Families across the Arthropoda: Origin and Evolutionary History of the Chemosensory System

(2011) Filipe G. Vieira et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Insect sex determination: it all evolves around transformer

(2010) Eveline C Verhulst et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Sequential speciation and the diversity of parasitic insects

(2010) JEFFREY L. FEDER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The insect chemoreceptor superfamily of the parasitoid jewel waspNasonia vitripennis

(2010) H. M. Robertson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient Protostome Origin of Chemosensory Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and the Evolution of Insect Taste and Olfaction

(2010) Vincent Croset et al.   PLoS Genetics

Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila

(2009) Richard Benton et al.   CELL

Identification and Expression Pattern of Putative Odorant-Binding Proteins and Chemosensory Proteins in Antennae of the Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

(2009) S. Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Identification and characterization of thedoublesexgene ofNasonia

(2009) D. C. S. G. Oliveira et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sequential Sympatric Speciation Across Trophic Levels

(2009) A. A. Forbes et al.   SCIENCE

Using a meiosis detection toolkit to investigate ancient asexual “scandals” and the evolution of sex

(2008) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   BIOESSAYS

Evidence for the evolutionary nascence of a novel sex determination pathway in honeybees

(2008) Martin Hasselmann et al.   NATURE