Evolution of the Insects

By P. Choate. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Tropical niche conservatism and the species richness gradient of North American butterflies (2009, background): “On the other hand, the oldest butterfly fossil dates from the late Palaeocene, c. 57–56 Ma, and Grimaldi & Engel (2005) posit a much later origination of the group (very late Cretaceous or early Palaeogene), with almost all butterfly radiation occurring between 60 and 15 Ma.”
Monophyletic Polyneoptera recovered by wing base structure (2011, methodology): “…recovered by the present analyses (e.g. Plecoptera + Dermaptera) contradict results from other morphological studies (Beutel & Gorb, 2001, 2006; Grimaldi & Engel, 2005), but such clades have also received some support from other morphological data (Kristensen, 1991; Grimaldi & Engel, 2005; Fig.”
Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms (2006, background): “and stimulates hepatocyte mitosis (3, 16).”
Building the Coleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification (2014, background): “…tree with the Archostemata, following well-established paleontological evidence that reveals great diversity of this group in the earliest fossil beetle deposits (Ponomarenko, 1995; Beutel & Leschen, 2005; Grimaldi & Engel, 2005; Beutel & Pohl, 2006; Beutel et al., 2008; Friedrich et al., 2009).”
Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata) (2014, background): “Odonata are among the most ancient of winged insects, dating from the Permian (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005).”
Evolution of insect olfaction. (2011, positive): “Within a given family, one can often find a wide variety of lifestyles and habitats (Grimaldi and Engel, 2005), thus providing excellent entry points for comparative studies within a narrow and defined phylogenetic framework.”
How Time Flies for Flies: Diverse Diptera from the Triassic of Virginia and Early Radiation of the Order (2007, background): “Culicomorphan larvae are essentially aquatic, and the ancestral diet of adult females is insect hemolymph and/or vertebrate blood (Grimaldi and Engel, 2005).”
The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution (2015, methodology): “Most extant beetle families are proposed to have Jurassic or Cretaceous origins (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005; Hunt et al., 2007; McKenna & Farrell, 2009).”
Global diversity of dragonflies (Odonata) in freshwater (2007, background): “…Nathan, QLD Q4111, Australia e-mail: agorr@bigpond.com D. R. Paulson Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA e-mail: dpaulson@ups.edu Dragonflies are among the most ancient of winged insects, dating back well into the Permian (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005).”
Who likes it hot? A global analysis of the climatic, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of warming tolerance in ants (2012, background): “Most multicellular species on Earth are insects (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005) – ants in particular comprise perhaps as many as 20 000 species, inhabit nearly all major terrestrial habitats, and are ecologically critical in their roles as predators, scavengers and herbivores (Wilson, 1990).”
Phylogeny and higher classification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)* (2007, background): “…22 (Ben-Dov et al., 2006) or about 30 extant families (Koteja, 1996, 2001a; Miller et al., 2007), and the oldest described coccoid fossils date only from the Early Cretaceous (Koteja, 2001a; Koteja & Azar, 2001; Grimaldi & Engel, 2005), even though the Coccoidea must be as old as its sister group.”
Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life. (2006, background): “Crucially, this is neither the most primitive crown-dipteran nor the oldest known to-tal-group dipteran, but the oldest record that falls within the clade circumscribed by Anopheles and Drosophila , following the phylogenetic scheme presented in Grimaldi and Engel (2005).”
Lipid content of terrestrial arthropods in relation to body size, phylogeny, ontogeny and sex (2011, methodology): “Phylogenetic tree topology was constructed using published trees (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005), as described previously (Lease & Wolf, 2010).”
Insect Pollinated Crops, Insect Pollinators and US Agriculture: Trend Analysis of Aggregate Data for the Period 1992–2009 (2012, background): “The majority of pollinators are insects, and the majority of those are bees (Anthophila) [13], of which there are approximately 17,000 described species and as many as 30,000 species worldwide [1,21].”
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life (2011, background): “The schizophoran radiation, which accounts for more than a third of extant fly diversity and 3% of all animal diversity, is (together with macrolepidopteran moths) the largest insect radiation in the Tertiary (6, 9).”
Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity? (2007, methodology): “We thank Bill Duellman, Ardian Jusufi, Shai Revzen, and Yonatan Munk for comments on the manuscript.”