Fossil and phylogenetic analyses reveal recurrent periods of diversification and extinction in dictyopteran insects

An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea)

(2019) Dominic A. Evangelista et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

(2019) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Exploring the power of Bayesian birth‐death skyline models to detect mass extinction events from phylogenies with only extant taxa

(2019) Victoria Culshaw et al.   EVOLUTION

Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution

(2019) Benno I. Simmons et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Moscovian fossils shed light on the enigmatic polyneopteran families Cacurgidae and Eoblattidae (Insecta: ‘Eoblattida’, Archaeorthoptera)

(2019) Thomas Schubnel et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Global events of the Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian): A review

(2019) Wenkun Qie et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The oldest known mastotermitids (Blattodea: Termitoidae) and phylogeny of basal termites

(2019) Zhipeng Zhao et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework

(2019) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

(2019) Sebastian Seibold et al.   NATURE

Revisiting the Great Ordovician Diversification of land plants: Recent data and perspectives

(2019) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Recalibration of the insect evolutionary time scale using Monte San Giorgio fossils suggests survival of key lineages through the End-Permian Extinction

(2019) Matteo Montagna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Cretaceous peak in family-level insect diversity estimated with mark–recapture methodology

(2019) Sandra R. Schachat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

Transoceanic Dispersal and Plate Tectonics Shaped Global Cockroach Distributions: Evidence from Mitochondrial Phylogenomics

(2018) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phanerozoic p O 2 and the early evolution of terrestrial animals

(2018) Sandra R. Schachat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When Darwin’s Special Difficulty Promotes Diversification in Insects

(2018) Frédéric Legendre et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversification of insects since the Devonian: a new approach based on morphological disparity of mouthparts

(2018) Patricia Nel et al.   Scientific Reports

History is written by the victors: The effect of the push of the past on the fossil record

(2018) Graham E. Budd et al.   EVOLUTION

Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates

(2018) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Nature Communications

New insects (Insecta: Eoblattida, Embiida) from the Permian of Russia and the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan, with observations on the origin of webspinners

(2017) D. S. Aristov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating Age-Dependent Extinction: Contrasting Evidence from Fossils and Phylogenies

(2017) Oskar Hagen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic analyses suggest that diversification and body size evolution are independent in insects

(2016) James L. Rainford et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cretaceous ambers from Lebanon, Spain, and Myanmar

(2016) Xavier Delclòs et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Ancient origin of high taxonomic richness among insects

(2016) Matthew E. Clapham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Bayesian approach for detecting the impact of mass-extinction events on molecular phylogenies when rates of lineage diversification may vary

(2016) Michael R. May et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Extinction in Phylogenetics and Biogeography: From Timetrees to Patterns of Biotic Assemblage

(2016) Isabel Sanmartín et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Global patterns of insect diversification: towards a reconciliation of fossil and molecular evidence?

(2016) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   Scientific Reports

Diet Evolution and Clade Richness in Hexapoda: A Phylogenetic Study of Higher Taxa

(2015) James L. Rainford et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

TESS: an R package for efficiently simulating phylogenetic trees and performing Bayesian inference of lineage diversification rates

(2015) Sebastian Höhna et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Insect evolution

(2015) Michael S. Engel   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Challenges in the estimation of extinction from molecular phylogenies: A response to Beaulieu and O'Meara

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Extinction can be estimated from moderately sized molecular phylogenies

(2015) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   EVOLUTION

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mass extinction in poorly known taxa

(2015) Claire Régnier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The fossil record and macroevolutionary history of the beetles

(2015) D. M. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence

(2015) Frédéric Legendre et al.   PLoS One

Cretaceous environmental changes led to high extinction rates in a hyperdiverse beetle family

(2014) Gael J Kergoat et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Composition and dynamics of the great Phanerozoic Evolutionary Floras

(2014) Christopher J. Cleal et al.   LETHAIA

Phylogenetic Distribution of Extant Richness Suggests Metamorphosis Is a Key Innovation Driving Diversification in Insects

(2014) James L. Rainford et al.   PLoS One

Flying rocks and flying clocks: disparity in fossil and molecular dates for birds

(2014) D. T. Ksepka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Wagner Parsimony using morphological characters: a new method for palaeosynecological studies

(2013) André Nel et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

The Fossil Record of Plant-Insect Dynamics

(2013) Conrad C. Labandeira et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

(2013) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Late Palaeozoic Paoliida is the sister group of Dictyoptera (Insecta: Neoptera)

(2013) Jakub Prokop et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The earliest known holometabolous insects

(2013) André Nel et al.   NATURE

Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive

(2013) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The most ancient roach (Blattodea): a new genus and species from the earliest Late Carboniferous (Namurian) of China, with a discussion of the phylomorphogeny of early blattids

(2012) Zhijun Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

(2012) Romain Garrouste et al.   NATURE

Extinctions in ancient and modern seas

(2012) Paul G. Harnik et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Woodland Hypothesis for Devonian Tetrapod Evolution

(2011) Gregory J. Retallack   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts

(2011) T. Stadler   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Testing for Temporal Variation in Diversification Rates When Sampling is Incomplete and Nonrandom

(2011) Chad D. Brock et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance

(2010) Michael S. Engel et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Slowdowns in Diversification Rates from Real Phylogenies May Not be Real

(2010) Natalie Cusimano et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change

(2009) Jessica L. Blois et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2008) G. T Lloyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES