Opsin Evolution in Flower-Visiting Beetles

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Sawfly genomes reveal evolutionary acquisitions that fostered the mega-radiation of parasitoid and eusocial Hymenoptera

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A molecular phylogeny of Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea): evolution of pollination and association with ‘Poppy guild’ flowers

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Insect pollination of cycads

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Two chiral types of randomly rotated ommatidia are distributed across the retina of the flathead oak borer Coraebus undatus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

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Influence of Trap Color, Type, and Placement on Capture Efficacy for Protaetia brevitarsis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

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The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity

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The evolution of sexual signal modes and associated sensor morphology in fireflies (Lampyridae, Coleoptera)

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Beetle Pollination of Cycads in the Mesozoic

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ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

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Ginger and the beetle: Evidence of primitive pollination system in a Himalayan endemic alpine ginger (Roscoea alpina, Zingiberaceae)

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Overcoming the loss of blue sensitivity through opsin duplication in the largest animal group, beetles

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Pollinators show flower colour preferences but flowers with similar colours do not attract similar pollinators

(2016) Sara Reverté et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A cure for the blues: opsin duplication and subfunctionalization for short-wavelength sensitivity in jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

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Opsins have evolved under the permanent heterozygote model: insights from phylotranscriptomics of Odonata

(2016) Anton Suvorov et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

How many species of arthropods visit flowers?

(2015) Carl W. Wardhaugh   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

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

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Variation in opsin genes correlates with signalling ecology in North American fireflies

(2015) S. E. Sander et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Review of the firefly visual system (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and evolution of the opsin genes underlying color vision

(2015) Gavin J. Martin et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Extraordinary diversity of visual opsin genes in dragonflies

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Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

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IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of scarab beetles tracks the sequential rise of angiosperms and mammals

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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

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Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

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

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Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

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Molecular and Fossil Evidence on the Origin of Angiosperms

(2012) James A. Doyle   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

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THE EVOLUTION OF FLORAL SCENT AND OLFACTORY PREFERENCES IN POLLINATORS: COEVOLUTION OR PRE-EXISTING BIAS?

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Evidence of red sensitive photoreceptors in Pygopleurus israelitus (Glaphyridae: Coleoptera) and its implications for beetle pollination in the southeast Mediterranean

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Parallel evolution of angiosperm colour signals: common evolutionary pressures linked to hymenopteran vision

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

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Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

Vision in click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): pigments and spectral correspondence between visual sensitivity and species bioluminescence emission

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