Giant fish-killing water bug reveals ancient and dynamic venom evolution in Heteroptera

Revisiting habitat and lifestyle transitions in Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera): insights from a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny

(2018) Christiane Weirauch et al.   CLADISTICS

The assassin bug Pristhesancus plagipennis produces two distinct venoms in separate gland lumens

(2018) Andrew A. Walker et al.   Nature Communications

Population Genomic Analysis of a Pitviper Reveals Microevolutionary Forces Underlying Venom Chemistry

(2017) Steven D. Aird et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of saliva components from the hematophagous reduviid Triatoma pallidipennis

(2017) María J. Hernández-Vargas et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Melt With This Kiss: Paralyzing and Liquefying Venom of The Assassin BugPristhesancus plagipennis(Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

(2017) Andrew A. Walker et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hemiptera reveals adaptive innovations driving the diversification of true bugs

(2017) Hu Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative proteomic analysis of the saliva of the Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma lecticularia and Panstrongylus herreri triatomines reveals a high interespecific functional biodiversity

(2016) Carlos Emmanuel Montandon et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Rapid Radiations and the Race to Redundancy: An Investigation of the Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Venoms

(2016) Timothy Jackson et al.   Toxins

Venoms of Heteropteran Insects: A Treasure Trove of Diverse Pharmacological Toolkits

(2016) Andrew Walker et al.   Toxins

Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic

(2015) Yan-hui Wang et al.   CLADISTICS

The Rise and Fall of an Evolutionary Innovation: Contrasting Strategies of Venom Evolution in Ancient and Young Animals

(2015) Kartik Sunagar et al.   PLoS Genetics

Diversification of a single ancestral gene into a successful toxin superfamily in highly venomous Australian funnel-web spiders

(2014) Sandy S Pineda et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Insights into the Saliva of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(2014) Michelle Peiffer et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Salivary Proteins of Lygus hesperus (Hemiptera: Miridae)

(2013) W. Rodney Cooper et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

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

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

Pfam: the protein families database

(2013) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Proteomic Profiling of Cereal Aphid Saliva Reveals Both Ubiquitous and Adaptive Secreted Proteins

(2013) Sohail A. K. Rao et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Higher Level Phylogeny and the First Divergence Time Estimation of Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) Based on Multiple Genes

(2012) Min Li et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary History of Assassin Bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae): Insights from Divergence Dating and Ancestral State Reconstruction

(2012) Wei Song Hwang et al.   PLoS One

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Field observation of predation on a turtle by a giant water bug

(2011) Shin-ya OHBA   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

2-DE-based proteomic investigation of the saliva of the Amazonian triatomine vectors of Chagas disease: Rhodnius brethesi and Rhodnius robustus

(2011) Camila M. Costa et al.   Journal of Proteomics

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Bites Caused by Giant Water Bugs Belonging to Belostomatidae Family (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) in Humans: A Report of Seven Cases

(2011) Vidal Haddad et al.   WILDERNESS & ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

Systematics and Evolution of Heteroptera: 25 Years of Progress

(2010) Christiane Weirauch et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Paralytic activity of lysophosphatidylcholine from saliva of the waterbug Belostoma anurum

(2010) L. Silva-Cardoso et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Insight into the Sialome of the Bed Bug,Cimex lectularius

(2010) Ivo M. B. Francischetti et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Insect hemolymph clotting

(2009) Mitchell S. Dushay   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Direct Treatment of Mouse or Human Blood With Soluble 5′-Nucleotidase Inhibits Platelet Aggregation

(2008) Melanie L. Hart et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

An insight into the sialome of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans, a vector of Chagas’ disease

(2007) Teresa C.F. Assumpção et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY