Advances in the understanding of Blattodea evolution: Insights from phylotranscriptomics and spermathecae

Inclusion of rare taxa from Blattidae and Anaplectidae improves phylogenetic resolution in the cockroach superfamily Blattoidea

(2023) Wenbo Deng et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogeny and age of cockroaches: a reanalysis of mitogenomes with selective fossil calibrations

(2022) Xin-Ran Li   DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Three cryptic Anaplecta (Blattodea, Blattoidea, Anaplectidae) species revealed by female genitalia, plus seven new species from China

(2022) Jing Zhu et al.   ZooKeys

Molecular data resolving the systematics of the related Blattellidae genera Symploce, Episymploce, and Blattella (Blattodea: Blaberoidea)

(2022) Duting Jin et al.   Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny

Review: Trait plasticity during plant-insect interactions: From molecular mechanisms to impact on community dynamics

(2022) Himani Ashra et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Ecological radiations of insects in the Mesozoic

(2022) Bo Wang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of Blattoidea (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) with a revised classification of Blattidae

(2022) Marie Djernæs et al.   Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny

Exploring the diversity of Eupolyphaga Chopard, 1929 (Blattodea, Corydioidea): species delimitation based on morphology and molecular analysis

(2022) Wei Han et al.   ZooKeys

Digging deep: a revised phylogeny of Australian burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae, Geoscapheinae) confirms extensive nonmonophyly and provides insights into biogeography and evolution of burrowing

(2021) Perry G. Beasley‐Hall et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Egg retention, viviparity and ovoviviparity in Paraneoptera

(2021) Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin   Comparative Cytogenetics

Vicariance and Dispersal Events Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes and Nuclear Genes (18S, 28S) Shaped Global Cryptocercus Distributions

(2021) Yanli CHE et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary rates are correlated between cockroach symbionts and mitochondrial genomes

(2020) Daej A. Arab et al.   Biology Letters

Victims of ancient hyperthermal events herald the fates of marine clades and traits under global warming

(2020) Carl J. Reddin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

(2019) Mario Coiro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Notes on some corydiid species from China, with the description of a new genus (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae)

(2019) Lu Qiu et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Fine Morphology of the Mouthparts in Cheilocapsus nigrescens (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) Reflects Adaptation for Phytophagous Habits

(2019) Yan Wang et al.   Insects

Uplift-driven diversification revealed by the historical biogeography of the cockroach Cryptocercus Scudder (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae) in eastern Asia

(2019) Yanli Che et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

New and little known Latindiinae (Blattodea, Corydiidae) from China, with discussion of the Asian genera and species

(2019) Lu Qiu et al.   ZooKeys

A new mid-Cretaceous cockroach of stem Nocticolidae and reestimating the age of Corydioidea (Dictyoptera: Blattodea)

(2019) Xin-Ran Li et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees

(2018) Chao Zhang et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

Topological support and data quality can only be assessed through multiple tests in reviewing Blattodea phylogeny

(2018) Dominic Evangelista et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2018) Jose Barba-Montoya et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rediscovered and new perisphaerine cockroaches from SW China with a review of subfamilial diagnosis (Blattodea: Blaberidae)

(2018) XIN-RAN LI et al.   ZOOTAXA

Establishment of a new genus, Brephallus Wang et al., gen. nov. (Blattodea, Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) based on two species from Pseudophoraspis, with details of polymorphism in species of Pseudophoraspis

(2018) Zhenzhen Wang et al.   ZooKeys

Comparative morphology of the internal female genitalia in two species of Mantophasmatodea

(2018) S. C. Küpper et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

New data on the cockroaches previously attributed to the genus Duchailluia Rehn, 1933 (Dictyoptera: Blattidae: Blattinae)

(2018) LEONID N. ANISYUTKIN et al.   ZOOTAXA

A taxonomic study of Eupolyphaga Chopard, 1929 (Blattodea: Corydiidae: Corydiinae)

(2018) LU QIU et al.   ZOOTAXA

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

The insect spermatheca: an overview

(2017) Tales V. Pascini et al.   ZOOLOGY

New data on cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new species and the genital complex of Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784)

(2017) LEONID N. ANISYUTKIN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Reconstructing the phylogeny of Blattodea: robust support for interfamilial relationships and major clades

(2017) Zongqing Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Transcriptome profiling of the spermatheca identifies genes potentially involved in the long-term sperm storage of ant queens

(2017) Ayako Gotoh et al.   Scientific Reports

Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

(2016) Joanna M. Wolfe et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A global molecular phylogeny and timescale of evolution for Cryptocercus woodroaches

(2016) Yanli Che et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Sinolatindia petila gen. n. and sp. n. from China (Blattodea, Corydiidae, Latindiinae)

(2016) Zongqing Wang et al.   ZooKeys

Physiology of Environmental Adaptations and Resource Acquisition in Cockroaches

(2015) Donald E. Mullins   Annual Review of Entomology

Identifying possible sister groups of Cryptocercidae+Isoptera: A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Dictyoptera

(2015) Marie Djernæs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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 social behaviour in Blaberid cockroaches with diverse habitats and social systems: phylogenetic analysis of behavioural sequences

(2013) Frédéric Legendre et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mulch Preferences of the Asian Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

(2013) Edward T. Snoddy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

(2013) GEORGE BECCALONI et al.   ZOOTAXA

ape 3.0: New tools for distance-based phylogenetics and evolutionary analysis in R

(2012) Andrei-Alin Popescu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Phylogeny of cockroaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), with placement of aberrant taxa and exploration of out-group sampling

(2011) MARIE DJERNAES et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

X-ray micro-tomography of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects

(2010) R. Garwood et al.   Biology Letters

Description of the basic features of parent-offspring stomodeal trophallaxis in the subsocial wood-feeding cockroach Salganea esakii (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae)

(2010) Keisuke SHIMADA et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

FASconCAT: Convenient handling of data matrices

(2010) Patrick Kück et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Monte Carlo Approach Successfully Identifies Randomness in Multiple Sequence Alignments : A More Objective Means of Data Exclusion

(2009) Bernhard Misof et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Male and female genitalia in some Libyan species of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)

(2009) Mohammad Kamil USMANI   ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Insights into female sperm storage from the spermathecal fluid proteome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

(2009) Boris Baer et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Internal reproductive anatomy of the praying mantid Ciulfina klassi (Mantodea: Liturgusidae).

(2008) Claire G. Winnick et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Social biology of the wood-feeding cockroach genus Salganea (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae): did ovoviviparity prevent the evolution of eusociality in the lineage?

(2008) K. Maekawa et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Relationships among the major lineages of Dictyoptera: the effect of outgroup selection on dictyopteran tree topology

(2008) JESSICA L. WARE et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY