Rapid adaptation in a fast‐changing world: Emerging insights from insect genomics

Genome Resequencing Reveals Rapid, Repeated Evolution in the Colorado Potato Beetle

(2022) Benjamin Pélissié et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Impact of invasive insects on native insect communities

(2022) Taiadjana M Fortuna et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Insects and recent climate change

(2021) Christopher A. Halsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice

(2021) G. W. K. Moore et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence for aposematism in a southern hemisphere stonefly family (Plecoptera: Austroperlidae)

(2021) Brodie J Foster et al.   Austral Entomology

Divergent diapause life history timing drives both allochronic speciation and reticulate hybridization in an adaptive radiation ofRhagoletisflies

(2021) Katherine A. Inskeep et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reinventing the wheel? Reassessing the roles of gene flow, sorting and convergence in repeated evolution

(2021) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Comparative genomics suggests local adaptations in the invasive small hive beetle

(2021) Yuanzhen Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Climate change and elevational range shifts in insects

(2021) Christy M McCain et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Population genomic and phenotype diversity of invasive Drosophila suzukii in Hawai‘i

(2020) Jonathan B. Koch et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Complex and nonlinear climate‐driven changes in freshwater insect communities over 42 years

(2020) Viktor Baranov et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences

(2020) J.M. Waters et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

High elevation insect communities face shifting ecological and evolutionary landscapes

(2020) Alisha A Shah et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The genetic architecture of a host shift: An adaptive walk protected an aphid and its endosymbiont from plant chemical defenses

(2020) Kumar Saurabh Singh et al.   Science Advances

Transposable Elements and the Evolution of Insects

(2020) Clément Gilbert et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Genome-wide variation and transcriptional changes in diverse developmental processes underlie the rapid evolution of seasonal adaptation

(2020) Edwina J. Dowle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monarch Butterfly Migration Moving into the Genetic Era

(2020) Christine Merlin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Selection and hybridization shaped the rapid spread of African honey bee ancestry in the Americas

(2020) Erin Calfee et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolutionary impacts of winter climate change on insects

(2020) Katie Elizabeth Marshall et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Climate change alters plant–herbivore interactions

(2020) Elena Hamann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands

(2020) Rachel I. Leihy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomics Reveals Widespread Ecological Speciation in Flightless Insects

(2020) Graham A McCulloch et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

“Insectageddon”: A call for more robust data and rigorous analyses

(2019) Chris D. Thomas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The spread of resistance to imidacloprid is restricted by thermotolerance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

(2019) Alexandre Fournier-Level et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A silent orchestra: convergent song loss in Hawaiian crickets is repeated, morphologically varied, and widespread

(2019) Jack G. Rayner et al.   ECOLOGY

Insect genomes: progress and challenges

(2019) Fei Li et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Parallel evolution of an alpine type ecomorph in a scorpionfly: Independent adaptation to high‐altitude environments in multiple mountain locations

(2019) Tomoya Suzuki et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecological gradients drive insect wing loss and speciation: The role of the alpine treeline

(2019) Graham A. McCulloch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Insect Declines in the Anthropocene

(2019) David L. Wagner   Annual Review of Entomology

Genetic convergence of industrial melanism in three geometrid moths

(2019) Arjen E. van't Hof et al.   Biology Letters

Genomic Basis of Circannual Rhythm in the European Corn Borer Moth

(2019) Genevieve M. Kozak et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Potential for Rapid Evolution under Anthropogenic Climate Change

(2019) Renee A. Catullo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rapid and repeatable host plant shifts drive reproductive isolation following a recent human‐mediated introduction of the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella

(2019) Glen R. Hood et al.   EVOLUTION

Major range loss predicted from lack of heat adaptability in an alpine Drosophila species

(2019) Martin-Carl Kinzner et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A transposable element insertion is associated with an alternative life history strategy

(2019) Alyssa Woronik et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

The evolutionary origins of pesticide resistance

(2018) Nichola J. Hawkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Signatures of local adaptation along environmental gradients in a range-expanding damselfly (Ischnura elegans )

(2018) Rachael Y. Dudaniec et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The predictability of genomic changes underlying a recent host shift in Melissa blue butterflies

(2018) Samridhi Chaturvedi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Positive selection on sociobiological traits in invasive fire ants

(2018) Eyal Privman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Contrasting the effects of natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow on urban evolution in white clover (Trifolium repens)

(2018) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intercontinental karyotype–environment parallelism supports a role for a chromosomal inversion in local adaptation in a seaweed fly

(2018) Claire Mérot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modern spandrels: the roles of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection in the evolution of parallel clines

(2018) James S. Santangelo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-Evolutionary Genomics of Chromosomal Inversions

(2018) Maren Wellenreuther et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rapid evolution in insect pests: the importance of space and time in population genomics studies

(2018) Benjamin Pélissié et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Genetic variation underlying local adaptation of diapause induction along a cline in a butterfly

(2018) Peter Pruisscher et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

(2018) David Nogués-Bravo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rapid evolution of insects to global environmental change: conceptual issues and empirical gaps

(2018) Jeff R Garnas   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Insect wing loss is tightly linked to the treeline: evidence from a diverse stonefly assemblage

(2018) Graham A. McCulloch et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Standing geographic variation in eclosion time and the genomics of host race formation in Rhagoletis pomonella fruit flies

(2018) Meredith M. Doellman et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Revisiting the particular role of host shifts in initiating insect speciation

(2017) Andrew A. Forbes et al.   EVOLUTION

Genomewide analysis of admixture and adaptation in the Africanized honeybee

(2017) Ronald M. Nelson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A soft selective sweep during rapid evolution of gentle behaviour in an Africanized honeybee

(2017) Arian Avalos et al.   Nature Communications

No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide

(2017) Hanno Seebens et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid adaptation of invertebrate pests to climatic stress?

(2017) Ary A Hoffmann   Current Opinion in Insect Science

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

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

Climate-induced glacier and snow loss imperils alpine stream insects

(2016) J. Joseph Giersch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Genomic Evidence for Adaptive Inversion Clines inDrosophila melanogaster

(2016) Martin Kapun et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

QTL analysis of the photoperiodic response and clinal distribution ofperiodalleles inNasonia vitripennis

(2016) Silvia Paolucci et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Chromosomal inversions and ecotypic differentiation inAnopheles gambiae: the perspective from whole-genome sequencing

(2016) R. Rebecca Love et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element

(2016) Arjen E. van’t Hof et al.   NATURE

Temporal patterns of imidacloprid resistance throughout a growing season inLeptinotarsa decemlineatapopulations

(2016) Justin Clements et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences

(2016) Andrew P. Hendry et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex responses of insect phenology to climate change

(2016) Jessica RK Forrest   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitoes: Impact, Mechanisms, and Research Directions

(2015) Nannan Liu   Annual Review of Entomology

Evolutionary consequences of climate-induced range shifts in insects

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

Experimental evidence of genome-wide impact of ecological selection during early stages of speciation-with-gene-flow

(2015) Scott P. Egan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Latitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results from thermal release during a climate-mediated range expansion

(2015) Lesley T. Lancaster et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Persistent inter- and intraspecific gene exchange within a parallel radiation of caterpillar hunter beetles (Calosomasp.) from the Galápagos

(2015) Frederik Hendrickx et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genomic evidence for role of inversion3RPofDrosophila melanogasterin facilitating climate change adaptation

(2015) Rahul V. Rane et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Adaptive introgression in an African malaria mosquito coincident with the increased usage of insecticide-treated bed nets

(2015) Laura C. Norris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Revisiting classic clines in Drosophila melanogaster in the age of genomics

(2015) Jeffrey R. Adrion et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite

(2015) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets

(2014) Sonia Pascoal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of insecticide resistance in the peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae

(2014) Chris Bass et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration

(2014) Shuai Zhan et al.   NATURE

Field-evolved resistance by western corn rootworm to multiple Bacillus thuringiensis toxins in transgenic maize

(2014) A. J. Gassmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species

(2014) Lukas Schrader et al.   Nature Communications

Adaptive introgression between Anopheles sibling species eliminates a major genomic island but not reproductive isolation

(2014) Chris S. Clarkson et al.   Nature Communications

Adaptation through chromosomal inversions in Anopheles

(2014) Diego Ayala et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

The Molecular Genetics of Insecticide Resistance

(2013) Richard H. ffrench-Constant   GENETICS

Climate-Induced Range Shifts and Possible Hybridisation Consequences in Insects

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

Gene amplification and microsatellite polymorphism underlie a recent insect host shift

(2013) C. Bass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gentle Africanized bees on an oceanic island

(2012) Bert Rivera-Marchand et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The peppered moth and industrial melanism: evolution of a natural selection case study

(2012) L M Cook et al.   HEREDITY

Resistance to diamide insecticides in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) is associated with a mutation in the membrane-spanning domain of the ryanodine receptor

(2012) Bartek Troczka et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Directionally selected cytochrome P450 alleles are driving the spread of pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus

(2012) J. M. Riveron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Core Metabolic Enzyme Mediates Resistance to Phosphine Gas

(2012) D. I. Schlipalius et al.   SCIENCE

Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of a herbivorous insect under climate change

(2012) Margriet van Asch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change

(2011) Andrew Sih et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Parallel Evolution ofBacillus thuringiensisToxin Resistance in Lepidoptera

(2011) Simon W. Baxter et al.   GENETICS

The molecular genetics of clinal variation: a case study of ebony and thoracic trident pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia

(2011) MARINA TELONIS-SCOTT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microgeographic adaptation linked to forest fragmentation and habitat quality in the tropical fruit fly Drosophila birchii

(2011) Yvonne Willi et al.   OIKOS

Chromosomal Inversions, Natural Selection and Adaptation in the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus

(2010) D. Ayala et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

(2010) D. B. McWethy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Amplification of a Cytochrome P450 Gene Is Associated with Resistance to Neonicotinoid Insecticides in the Aphid Myzus persicae

(2010) Alin M. Puinean et al.   PLoS Genetics

Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

(2009) MATTY P. BERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A genome-wide signature of positive selection in ancient and recent invasive expansions of the honey bee Apis mellifera

(2008) A. Zayed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA