A transcriptome‐based phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea confirms the sister group relationship of dung beetles and phytophagous pleurostict scarabs (Coleoptera)

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

(2022) Chenyang Cai et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The evolution of conglobation in Ceratocanthinae

(2022) Yuanyuan Lu et al.   Communications Biology

Revisiting trends in morphology of antennal sensilla in scarabaeoid beetles

(2022) Thaynara L. Pacheco et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals deep relationships of scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

(2022) Shibao Guo et al.   PLoS One

BUSCO Update: Novel and Streamlined Workflows along with Broader and Deeper Phylogenetic Coverage for Scoring of Eukaryotic, Prokaryotic, and Viral Genomes

(2021) Mosè Manni et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Mitochondrial Genomes of 18 New Pleurosticti (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Exhibit a Novel trnQ-NCR-trnI-trnM Gene Rearrangement and Clarify Phylogenetic Relationships of Subfamilies within Scarabaeidae

(2021) Sam Pedro Galilee Ayivi et al.   Insects

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

(2020) Bui Quang Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

On the tribal classification of the Nearctic Melolonthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with descriptions of new species of Acoma Casey, 1889

(2020) ARTHUR V. EVANS et al.   ZOOTAXA

Comparative morphology of antennal surface structures in pleurostict scarab beetles (Coleoptera)

(2020) Claudia Bohacz et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

A molecular phylogeny of chafers revisits the polyphyly of Tanyproctini (Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae)

(2019) Jonas Eberle et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

On the phylogenetic position and systematics of extant and fossil Aclopinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2019) Jhon César Neita‐Moreno et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity

(2019) Duane D. McKenna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2018) Chao Zhang et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Taxonomic review of Athliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), a new tribe of scarab beetles endemic to South America

(2018) ANDREW B.T. SMITH et al.   ZOOTAXA

OrthoDB v10: sampling the diversity of animal, plant, fungal, protist, bacterial and viral genomes for evolutionary and functional annotations of orthologs

(2018) Evgenia V Kriventseva et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

A molecular phylogeny of rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) reveals a complex and concerted morphological evolution related to their flight mode

(2016) Petr Šípek et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Terrace Aware Data Structure for Phylogenomic Inference from Supermatrices

(2016) Olga Chernomor et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The peril of dating beetles

(2016) EMMANUEL F. A. TOUSSAINT et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

If Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Arose in Association with Dinosaurs, Did They Also Suffer a Mass Co-Extinction at the K-Pg Boundary?

(2016) Nicole L. Gunter et al.   PLoS One

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

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Family-Level Sampling of Mitochondrial Genomes in Coleoptera: Compositional Heterogeneity and Phylogenetics

(2015) Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution

(2015) DUANE D. MCKENNA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Compositional Biases among Synonymous Substitutions Cause Conflict between Gene and Protein Trees for Plastid Origins

(2014) Blaise Li et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Phylogeny and evolution of Staphyliniformia and Scarabaeiformia: forest litter as a stepping stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles

(2014) DUANE D. MCKENNA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Glycolytic Activities in the Larval Digestive Tract of Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2014) Noriko Wada et al.   Insects

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

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

Brood Ball-Mediated Transmission of Microbiome Members in the Dung Beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2013) Anne M. Estes et al.   PLoS One

Building the Coleoptera tree-of-life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification

(2013) LADISLAV BOCAK et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Evaluating the effects of terrestrial ecosystems, climate and carbon dioxide on weathering over geological time: a global-scale process-based approach

(2012) L. L. Taylor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A critical transition in leaf evolution facilitated the Cretaceous angiosperm revolution

(2012) Hugo Jan de Boer et al.   Nature Communications

Modeling the evolutionary rise of ectomycorrhiza on sub-surface weathering environments and the geochemical carbon cycle

(2011) L. Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Phylogeny of the Coleoptera Based on Morphological Characters of Adults and Larvae

(2011) John F. Lawrence et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI

The phylogeny of monkey beetles based on mitochondrial and ribosomal RNA genes (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Hopliini)

(2011) Dirk Ahrens et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta)

(2011) Patrice Bouchard et al.   ZooKeys

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

Parametric and non-parametric masking of randomness in sequence alignments can be improved and leads to better resolved trees

(2010) Patrick Kück et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The scarab gut: A potential bioreactor for bio-fuel production

(2010) Sheng-Wei Huang et al.   Insect Science

The angiosperm radiation revisited, an ecological explanation for Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’

(2009) Frank Berendse et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Towards the phylogeny of chafers (Sericini): Analysis of alignment-variable sequences and the evolution of segment numbers in the antennal club

(2008) Dirk Ahrens et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION