Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics

Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographical range expansion front

(2016) Lesley T. Lancaster et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolutionary Time-Series Analysis Reveals the Signature of Frequency-Dependent Selection on a Female Mating Polymorphism

(2015) Arnaud Le Rouzic et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evolutionary consequences of climate-induced range shifts in insects

(2015) Rosa A. Sánchez-Guillén et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Plasticity as panacea? Nerves, hormones, and the currencies of trade-offs

(2015) Elizabeth Bastiaans et al.   Current Zoology

Warming reinforces nonconsumptive predator effects on prey growth, physiology, and body stoichiometry

(2015) Lizanne Janssens et al.   ECOLOGY

Nonadaptive radiation in damselflies

(2015) Maren Wellenreuther et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Larval UV exposure impairs adult immune function through a trade-off with larval investment in cuticular melanin

(2015) Sara Debecker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Identification of diverse circular single-stranded DNA viruses in adult dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Arizona and Oklahoma, USA

(2015) Anisha Dayaram et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Identification of viruses associated with larvae of the dragonflyLeucorrhinia dubia, and damselflyCoenagrion puellafrom RNA sequencing data

(2015) Paul R. Johnston et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY

Polarization sensitivity as a visual contrast enhancer in the Emperor dragonfly larva, Anax imperator

(2015) C. R. Sharkey et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Adaptations of protein structure and function to temperature: there is more than one way to 'skin a cat'

(2015) P. A. Fields et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Neutral and adaptive genomic signatures of rapid poleward range expansion

(2015) J. Swaegers et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mitochondrial capture enriches mito-DNA 100 fold, enabling PCR-free mitogenomics biodiversity analysis

(2015) Shanlin Liu et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The application of “-omics” technologies for the classification and identification of animals

(2015) Michael J. Raupach et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Extraordinary diversity of visual opsin genes in dragonflies

(2015) Ryo Futahashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New approaches narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods

(2015) Nigel E. Stork et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The thorax morphology of Epiophlebia (Insecta: Odonata) nymphs – including remarks on ontogenesis and evolution

(2015) Sebastian Büsse et al.   Scientific Reports

Tiger Swallowtail Genome Reveals Mechanisms for Speciation and Caterpillar Chemical Defense

(2015) Qian Cong et al.   Cell Reports

Plasticity as panacea? Nerves, hormones, and the currencies of trade-offs

(2015) Elizabeth Bastiaans et al.   Current Zoology

Genomics: moving behavioural ecology beyond the phenotypic gambit

(2014) Clare C. Rittschof et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms

(2014) Daniel I Speiser et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

De novo transcriptome of Ischnura elegans provides insights into sensory biology, colour and vision genes

(2014) Pallavi Chauhan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genomic data integration for ecological and evolutionary traits in non-model organisms

(2014) Denis Tagu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Supergenes and Complex Phenotypes

(2014) Tanja Schwander et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Genome of the Clonal Raider Ant Cerapachys biroi

(2014) Peter R. Oxley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence

(2014) Juha Merilä et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Increased activity and growth rate in the non-dispersive aquatic larval stage of a damselfly at an expanding range edge

(2014) Lieven Therry et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

New EPIC nuclear DNA sequence markers to improve the resolution of phylogeographic studies of coenagrionids and other odonates

(2014) Sónia Ferreira et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY

First evidence of the use of olfaction in Odonata behaviour

(2014) Silvana Piersanti et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Sexual selection and genetic colour polymorphisms in animals

(2014) Maren Wellenreuther et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Internal models direct dragonfly interception steering

(2014) Matteo Mischiati et al.   NATURE

doublesex is a mimicry supergene

(2014) K. Kunte et al.   NATURE

Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale

(2014) Egina Malaj et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genetic covariance between life cycle stages separated by metamorphosis

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

Sex differences in developmental plasticity and canalization shape population divergence in mate preferences

(2014) E. I. Svensson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths

(2014) A. Y. Kawahara 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

Evolution of increased phenotypic diversity enhances population performance by reducing sexual harassment in damselflies

(2014) Yuma Takahashi et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of dominance mechanisms at a butterfly mimicry supergene

(2014) Yann Le Poul et al.   Nature Communications

Pgi: the ongoing saga of a candidate gene

(2014) Christopher W Wheat et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Ecology and Sexual Selection: Evolution of Wing Pigmentation in Calopterygid Damselflies in Relation to Latitude, Sexual Dimorphism, and Speciation

(2013) Erik I. Svensson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Lost in the crowd or hidden in the grass: signal apparency of female polymorphic damselflies in alternative habitats

(2013) Tom D. Schultz et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Freshwater Biodiversity and Aquatic Insect Diversification

(2013) Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: Implications for Evolution and Phylogeny

(2013) Stephen L. Cameron   Annual Review of Entomology

Immune- and wound-dependent differential gene expression in an ancient insect

(2013) Paul R. Johnston et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Photoperiod and variation in life history traits in core and peripheral populations in the damselflyLestes sponsa

(2013) SZYMON ŚNIEGULA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Susceptibility to a metal under global warming is shaped by thermal adaptation along a latitudinal gradient

(2013) Khuong Dinh Van et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid range expansion increases genetic differentiation while causing limited reduction in genetic diversity in a damselfly

(2013) J Swaegers et al.   HEREDITY

Key questions in the genetics and genomics of eco-evolutionary dynamics

(2013) A P Hendry   HEREDITY

Male-biased recombination in odonates: insights from a linkage map of the damselfly Ischnura elegans

(2013) MAREN WELLENREUTHER et al.   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Next generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of the scarce blue-tailed damselfly,Ischnura pumilio

(2013) M. Olalla Lorenzo-Carballa et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Genotyping-by-sequencing in ecological and conservation genomics

(2013) Shawn R. Narum et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A comparative analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes among Hexapoda

(2013) Sabrina Simon et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ecological genomics of local adaptation

(2013) Outi Savolainen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Climate-Induced Range Shifts and Possible Hybridisation Consequences in Insects

(2013) Rosa Ana Sánchez-Guillén et al.   PLoS One

Pesticides reduce regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates

(2013) M. A. Beketov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)

(2013) KLAAS-DOUWE B. DIJKSTRA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

(2013) Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra et al.   ZOOTAXA

Functional Annotation and Comparative Analysis of a Zygopteran Transcriptome

(2013) Alexander G. Shanku et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

SUPPORT FOR THE IMMUNOCOMPETENCE HANDICAP HYPOTHESIS IN THE WILD: HORMONAL MANIPULATION DECREASES SURVIVAL IN SICK DAMSELFLIES

(2012) Daniel M. González-Tokman et al.   EVOLUTION

GENETIC VARIATION IN HIF SIGNALING UNDERLIES QUANTITATIVE VARIATION IN PHYSIOLOGICAL AND LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS WITHIN LOWLAND BUTTERFLY POPULATIONS

(2012) James H. Marden et al.   EVOLUTION

Histone acetylation mediates epigenetic regulation of transcriptional reprogramming in insects during metamorphosis, wounding and infection

(2012) Krishnendu Mukherjee et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Local genetic adaptation generates latitude-specific effects of warming on predator-prey interactions

(2012) Marjan De Block et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rare Events in Remote Dark-Field Spectroscopy: An Ecological Case Study of Insects

(2012) A. Runemark et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Fliers and perchers among Odonata: dichotomy or multidimensional continuum? A provisional reappraisal

(2012) Philip S. Corbet et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY

Behaviour and physiology shape the growth accelerations associated with predation risk, high temperatures and southern latitudes in Ischnura damselfly larvae

(2012) Robby Stoks et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Estimating the Economic Cost of One of the World's Major Insect Pests, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae): Just How Long Is a Piece of String?

(2012) Myron P. Zalucki et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Linking biomechanics and ecology through predator-prey interactions: flight performance of dragonflies and their prey

(2012) S. A. Combes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A new analytical approach to landscape genetic modelling: least-cost transect analysis and linear mixed models

(2012) MAARTEN J. VAN STRIEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeny, classification and taxonomy of European dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata): a review

(2012) K.-D. B. Dijkstra et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

All the better to see you with: a review of odonate color vision with transcriptomic insight into the odonate eye

(2012) Seth M. Bybee et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Growth Pattern Responses to Photoperiod across Latitudes in a Northern Damselfly

(2012) Szymon Śniegula et al.   PLoS One

Redox alters yellow dragonflies into red

(2012) R. Futahashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Identification of Concerted Convergence in Insect Heads Corroborates Palaeoptera

(2012) Alexander Blanke et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Massively High-Throughput Phylogenomics

(2012) Alan R. Lemmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Ecology of Odonata: A Complex Life Cycle Perspective

(2011) Robby Stoks et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Fossil gaps inferred from phylogenies alter the apparent nature of diversification in dragonflies and their relatives

(2011) Robert B Davis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A geographic cline induced by negative frequency-dependent selection

(2011) Yuma Takahashi et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Field estimates of reproductive success in a model insect: behavioural surrogates are poor predictors of fitness

(2011) David J. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interactive effects of Pgi genotype and temperature on larval growth and survival in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

(2011) Eveliina Kallioniemi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The Genetic Basis of Rapidly Evolving Male Genital Morphology inDrosophila

(2011) John P. Masly et al.   GENETICS

Complex Life Cycles and the Responses of Insects to Climate Change

(2011) Joel G. Kingsolver et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Dragons fly, biologists classify: an overview of molecular odonate studies, and our evolutionary understanding of dragonfly and damselfly (Insecta: Odonata) behavior

(2011) Elizabeth F. Ballare et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY

Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the ‘protozygopteran’ grade

(2011) André Nel et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Gene Flow-Dependent Genomic Divergence between Anopheles gambiae M and S Forms

(2011) D. Weetman et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Latitudinal and voltinism compensation shape thermal reaction norms for growth rate

(2011) LISA N. S. SHAMA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Differentiation in developmental rate across geographic regions: a photoperiod driven latitude compensating mechanism?

(2011) Szymon Śniegula et al.   OIKOS

Rapid Growth Reduces Cold Resistance: Evidence from Latitudinal Variation in Growth Rate, Cold Resistance and Stress Proteins

(2011) Robby Stoks et al.   PLoS One

Environmental and Climatic Determinants of Molecular Diversity and Genetic Population Structure in a Coenagrionid Damselfly

(2011) Maren Wellenreuther et al.   PLoS One

Eco-evolutionary spatial dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

(2011) I. A. Hanski   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Physiological Stress as a Fundamental Mechanism Linking Predation to Ecosystem Functioning

(2010) Dror Hawlena et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological and genetic measurements of dispersal in a threatened dragonfly

(2010) Daniela Keller et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Patterns of spatial genetic structure and diversity at the onset of a rapid range expansion: colonisation of the UK by the small red-eyed damselfly Erythromma viridulum

(2010) Phillip C. Watts et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A role for ecology in male mate discrimination of immigrant females in Calopteryx damselflies?

(2010) MAREN WELLENREUTHER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A ROLE FOR LEARNING IN POPULATION DIVERGENCE OF MATE PREFERENCES

(2010) Erik I. Svensson et al.   EVOLUTION

Applications of next generation sequencing in molecular ecology of non-model organisms

(2010) R Ekblom et al.   HEREDITY

Genome scan of hybridizing sunflowers from Texas (Helianthus annuusandH. debilis) reveals asymmetric patterns of introgression and small islands of genomic differentiation

(2010) M. SCASCITELLI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Larval food quality affects adult (but not larval) immune gene expression independent of effects on general condition

(2010) SIMON FELLOUS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Colour polymorphism and correlated characters: genetic mechanisms and evolution

(2010) JEFFREY S. MCKINNON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Female reproductive success is affected by selective male harassment in the damselfly Ischnura senegalensis

(2009) Yuma Takahashi et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Flight metabolic rate andPgigenotype influence butterfly dispersal rate in the field

(2009) Kristjan Niitepõld et al.   ECOLOGY

The toxicology of climate change: Environmental contaminants in a warming world

(2009) Pamela D. Noyes et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

SIMULATING RANGE EXPANSION: MALE SPECIES RECOGNITION AND LOSS OF PREMATING ISOLATION IN DAMSELFLIES

(2009) Maren Wellenreuther et al.   EVOLUTION

The complete mitogenome sequences of the palaeopteran insects Ephemera orientalis (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae) and Davidius lunatus (Odonata: Gomphidae)

(2009) Eun Mee Lee et al.   GENOME

An exploration of genome size diversity in dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata)

(2009) A. M. Ardila-Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Basal Pterygote Divergence

(2009) S. Simon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Interactions between effects of environmental chemicals and natural stressors: A review

(2009) Martin Holmstrup et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The size of the red wing spot of the American rubyspot as a heightened condition-dependent ornament

(2008) J. Contreras-Garduno et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Molecules, morphology and fossils: a comprehensive approach to odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the odonate wing

(2008) Seth M. Bybee et al.   CLADISTICS

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

(2008) Nicola Gallai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Predation risk induces stress proteins and reduces antioxidant defense

(2008) S. Slos et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Territorial behaviour and immunity are mediated by juvenile hormone: the physiological basis of honest signalling?

(2008) Jorge Contreras-Garduño et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of Chemical Cues on Foraging in Damselfly Larvae, Enallagma antennatum

(2008) Lisa Mortensen et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Rapid transcriptome characterization for a nonmodel organism using 454 pyrosequencing

(2008) J. CRISTOBAL VERA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A dynamical model of sexual harassment in damselflies and its implications for female-limited polymorphism

(2007) Hans Van Gossum et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING