Insect morphology in the age of phylogenomics: innovative techniques and its future role in systematics

Development of head and trunk mesoderm in the dogfish,Scyliorhinus torazame: I. Embryology and morphology of the head cavities and related structures

(2015) Noritaka Adachi et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The developmental process during metamorphosis that results in wing reduction in females of three species of wingless-legged bagworm moths, Taleporia trichopterella, Bacotia sakabei and Proutia sp. (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

(2014) Shuhei NIITSU et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Parallel evolution of novelties: extremely long intromittent organs in the leaf beetle subfamily Criocerinae

(2013) Yoko Matsumura et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The need for data standards in zoomorphology

(2013) Lars Vogt et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Metamorphosis revealed: time-lapse three-dimensional imaging inside a living chrysalis

(2013) T. Lowe et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A simple “hands-off” apparatus to inflate concealed soft parts of the genitalia of small insect specimens

(2013) Frank Hünefeld et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

A thin polymer membrane, nano-suit, enhancing survival across the continuum between air and high vacuum

(2013) Y. Takaku et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The exoskeleton of the female genitalic region in Petrobiellus takunagae (Insecta: Archaeognatha): Insect-wide terminology, homologies, and functional interpretations

(2012) Klaus-Dieter Klass et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Morphology and insect systematics in the era of phylogenomics

(2012) Rolf G. Beutel et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

The male and female reproductive systems of Zorotypus hubbardi Caudell, 1918 (Zoraptera)

(2012) R. Dallai et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary patterns of hind wing morphology in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)

(2012) Ming Bai et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Genomic and Morphological Evidence Converge to Resolve the Enigma of Strepsiptera

(2012) Oliver Niehuis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Cicadomorpha (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) inferred from the wing base structure

(2012) Kazunori YOSHIZAWA et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evolutionary phenomics and the emerging enlightenment of arthropod systematics

(2012) Andrew R. Deans et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

First μ-CT-based 3D reconstruction of a dipteran larva-the head morphology of protanyderus (tanyderidae) and its phylogenetic implications

(2012) Benjamin Wipfler et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Functional structure of antennal sensilla in the myrmecophilous beetle Paussus favieri (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini)

(2012) Andrea Di Giulio et al.   MICRON

Termitotrox cupido sp. n. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), a new termitophilous scarab species from the Indo-Chinese subregion, associated with Hypotermes termites

(2012) Munetoshi Maruyama   ZooKeys

The female genitalic region in Eudermaptera (Insecta: Dermaptera)

(2012) Karolin Schneider et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

The developmental basis of bat wing muscle

(2012) Masayoshi Tokita et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Advances in Insect Phylogeny at the Dawn of the Postgenomic Era

(2011) Michelle D. Trautwein et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Comparative copulation anatomy of the Drosophila melanogaster species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

(2011) Yoshitaka KAMIMURA et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A bridge between original and novel states: ontogeny and function of “suction discs” in the Branchiura (Crustacea)

(2011) Tomonari Kaji et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Detailed three-dimensional visualization of resilin in the exoskeleton of arthropods using confocal laser scanning microscopy

(2011) J. MICHELS et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Beam deceleration for block-face scanning electron microscopy of embedded biological tissue

(2011) Keisuke Ohta et al.   MICRON

Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda

(2011) B. M. von Reumont et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Comparing wing loading, flight muscle and lipid content in ant-attended and non-attended Tuberculatus aphid species

(2011) IZUMI YAO et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Evolutionary Constraints in Hind Wing Shape in Chinese Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)

(2011) Ming Bai et al.   PLoS One

Monophyletic Polyneoptera recovered by wing base structure

(2011) KAZUNORI YOSHIZAWA   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

In vitro effects of juvenile hormone analog on wing disc morphogenesis under ecdysteroid treatment in the female-wingless bagworm moth Eumeta variegata (Insecta: Lepidoptera, Psychidae)

(2011) Shuhei Niitsu et al.   TISSUE & CELL

Egg structure of Zorotypus caudelli Karny (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae)

(2011) Yuta Mashimo et al.   TISSUE & CELL

Time to change how we describe biodiversity

(2011) Andrew R. Deans et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Morphological and molecular evidence converge upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola

(2010) Rolf G. Beutel et al.   CLADISTICS

Assessment of Congo red as a fluorescence marker for the exoskeleton of small crustaceans and the cuticle of polychaetes

(2010) J. MICHELS et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

The phylogeny of hexapod “orders”. A critical review of recent accounts

(2010) N. P. Kristensen   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

A scanning electron microscopy specimen holder for viewing different angles of a single specimen

(2010) Hans Pohl   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life

(2010) K. Meusemann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reconstructing the anatomy of the 42-million-year-old fossil †Mengea tertiaria (Insecta, Strepsiptera)

(2010) Hans Pohl et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

A Second New Species of Ice Crawlers from China (Insecta: Grylloblattodea), with Thorax Evolution and the Prediction of Potential Distribution

(2010) Ming Bai et al.   PLoS One

Undisciplined thinking: morphology and Hennig’s unfinished revolution

(2010) QUENTIN D. WHEELER   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

A new genus and species of myrmecophilous aphodiine beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) inhabiting the myrmecophytic epiphyte Platycerium sp. (Polypodiaceae) in the Bornean rainforest canopy

(2010) Munetoshi Maruyama   ZooKeys

An Integrated Micro- and Macroarchitectural Analysis of the Drosophila Brain by Computer-Assisted Serial Section Electron Microscopy

(2010) Albert Cardona et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects

(2009) Brian M Wiegmann et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships

(2009) Björn M von Reumont et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Peracarida (Malacostraca; Crustacea)

(2009) Christian S. Wirkner et al.   CLADISTICS

Differential regulations of wing and ovarian development and heterochronic changes of embryogenesis between morphs in wing polyphenism of the vetch aphid

(2009) Asano Ishikawa et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Ultramicrotomy in the ESEM, a versatile method for materials and life sciences

(2009) A. ZANKEL et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Application of environmental scanning electron microscopy to determine biological surface structure

(2009) S.E. KIRK et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Charles Darwin, beetles and phylogenetics

(2009) Rolf G. Beutel et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan by the Folding and Creation of New Muscle Connections

(2009) H. Nagashima et al.   SCIENCE

A revised interpretation of the wing base structure in Odonata

(2009) TOMOYA NINOMIYA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Molecules, morphology and fossils: a comprehensive approach to odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the odonate wing

(2008) Seth M. Bybee et al.   CLADISTICS

Serial Section Scanning Electron Microscopy of Adult Brain Tissue Using Focused Ion Beam Milling

(2008) G. Knott et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evolutionary scenarios for unusual attachment devices of Phasmatodea and Mantophasmatodea (Insecta)

(2008) ROLF G. BEUTEL et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Morphological and histological examination of polyphenic wing formation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera, Hexapoda)

(2008) Asano Ishikawa et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Social insect histology from the nineteenth century: The magnificent pioneer sections of Charles Janet

(2007) Johan Billen et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT