Phylogenetic evidence for a single, ancestral origin of a ‘true’ worker caste in termites

By Graham J. Thompson, Osamu Kitade, Nathan Lo, Ross H. Crozier. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. Klass
2. D. Grimaldi
3. J. Ware
4. Jessica R. Litman
5. L. A. Spearman
6. Gavin J. Svenson
7. M. Engel
8. Paul c. Nascimbene

In Genetics

1. D. Grimaldi
2. Gavin J. Svenson
3. M. Engel
4. Paul c. Nascimbene
5. K. Klass
6. Michael Whiting
7. Jessica R. Litman
8. J. Ware

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• Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota (2011, unknown): “…in Australia only after isolation from Antarctica include multiple bee groups (Lowe & Crozier, 1997; Leys et al., 2002; Danforth et al., 2004; Schwarz et al., 2004, 2006; Fuller et al., 2005; Schiffer et al., 2007), and some cockroaches and termites (Thompson et al., 2000; Maekawa et al., 2003).”
• Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance (2002, background): “This stratigraphic occurrence corresponds with recent and even traditional phylogenetic hypotheses of isopteran families: Mastotermitidae (Hodotermitidae (Termopsidae (Kalotermitidae (all other termites)))) (e.g., Donovan et al., 2000; Thompson et al., 2000).”
• Relationships among the major lineages of Dictyoptera: the effect of outgroup selection on dictyopteran tree topology (2008, background): “The traditional view that this is between Mastotermes and all other Isoptera (Hennig, 1969, 1981; see also Krishna, 1970; Klass, 1995; Thompson et al., 2000a) has been opposed by Thorne & Carpenter (1992; but see Deitz et al., 2003 for a revision), whereas it has been confirmed by most subsequent…”
• Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator (2004, methodology): “Missing data for Isoptera and Blattaria were augmented by four sequences downloaded from GenBank for Mastotermes darwiniensis (16S rDNA and COII; Thompson et al., 2000 ), Cryptocercus punctulatus (16S rDNA; Kambhampati et al., 1996) and Gromphadorhina portentosa (16S rDNA; Kambhampati, 1995).”