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Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution by Orr, Michael C., Hughes, Alice C., Chesters, Douglas, Pickering, John, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Ascher, John S.

“…Insects are the focus of many recent studies suggesting population declines, but even invaluable pollination service providers such as bees lack a modern…”
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Phylogeography of Poorly Dispersing Net-Winged Beetles: A Role of Drifting India in the Origin of Afrotropical and Oriental Fauna by Sklenarova, Katerina, Chesters, Douglas, Bocak, Ladislav

“…Ancient dispersal history may be obscured by subsequent dispersal events. Therefore, we intend to investigate the biogeography of metriorrhynchine net-winged…”
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The mitochondrial genome of Elodia flavipalpis Aldrich (Diptera: Tachinidae) and the evolutionary timescale of Tachinid flies by Zhao, Zhe, Su, Tian-Juan, Chesters, Douglas, Wang, Shi-di, Ho, Simon Y W, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Chen, Xiao-Lin, Zhang, Chun-Tian

“…Tachinid flies are natural enemies of many lepidopteran and coleopteran pests of forests, crops, and fruit trees. In order to address the lack of genetic data…”
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Phylogenetic reconstruction and DNA barcoding for closely related pine moth species (Dendrolimus) in China with multiple gene markers by Dai, Qing-Yan, Gao, Qiang, Wu, Chun-Sheng, Chesters, Douglas, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Zhang, Ai-Bing

“…Unlike distinct species, closely related species offer a great challenge for phylogeny reconstruction and species identification with DNA barcoding due to…”
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Climatic and vegetational drivers of insect beta diversity at the continental scale by Chesters, Douglas, Beckschäfer, Philip, Orr, Michael C., Adamowicz, Sarah J., Chun, Kwok‐Pan, Zhu, Chao‐Dong

“…Aim We construct a framework for mapping pattern and drivers of insect diversity at the continental scale and use it to test whether and which environmental…”
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Integrative taxonomy of a new species of a bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae), investigated through phylogenomics by Orr, Michael C, Chesters, Douglas, Williams, Paul H, Wood, Thomas J, Zhou, Qingsong, Bossert, Silas, Sless, Trevor, Warrit, Natapot, Rasmont, Pierre, Ghisbain, Guillaume, Boustani, Mira, Luo, A'rong, Feng, Yuan, Niu, Ze-Qing, Zhu, Chao-Dong

“…A new species of bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica Orr & Zhu, sp. nov. , is described from China. The systematic placement of…”
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Leaf Nutritional Content, Tree Richness, and Season Shape the Caterpillar Functional Trait Composition Hosted by Trees by Anttonen, Perttu, Li, Yi, Chesters, Douglas, Davrinche, Andréa, Haider, Sylvia, Bruelheide, Helge, Chen, Jing-Ting, Wang, Ming-Qiang, Ma, Ke-Ping, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Schuldt, Andreas

“…Nutritional content of host plants is expected to drive caterpillar species assemblages and their trait composition. These relationships are altered by tree…”
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The integrative taxonomic approach reveals host specific species in an encyrtid parasitoid species complex by Chesters, Douglas, Wang, Ying, Yu, Fang, Bai, Ming, Zhang, Tong-Xin, Hu, Hao-Yuan, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Li, Cheng-De, Zhang, Yan-Zhou

“…Integrated taxonomy uses evidence from a number of different character types to delimit species and other natural groupings. While this approach has been…”
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Where are the biggest gaps in phylogenetic coverage of insect diversity? by Chesters, Douglas

“…Gaps in phylogenetic knowledge are unlikely to be filled in an optimal manner in the absence of a quantitative descriptive framework of phylogenetic coverage…”
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Construction of a Species-Level Tree of Life for the Insects and Utility in Taxonomic Profiling by Chesters, Douglas

“…Although comprehensive phylogenies have proven an invaluable tool in ecology and evolution, their construction is made increasingly challenging both by the…”
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Molecular phylogeny and the underestimated species diversity of the endemic white-bellied rat (Rodentia: Muridae: Niviventer) in Southeast Asia and China by Lu, Liang, Ge, Deyan, Chesters, Douglas, Ho, Simon Y. W., Ma, Ying, Li, Guichang, Wen, Zhixin, Wu, Yongjie, Wang, Jun, Xia, Lin, Liu, Jingli, Guo, Tianyu, Zhang, Xiaolong, Zhu, Chaodong, Yang, Qisen, Liu, Qiyong

“…The white‐bellied rat, Niviventer, is a genus endemic to Southeast Asia and China. However, the interspecific phylogenetic relationships and species diversity…”
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Tree diversity and functional leaf traits drive herbivore‐associated microbiomes in subtropical China by Li, Yi, Chesters, Douglas, Wang, Ming‐Qiang, Wubet, Tesfaye, Schuldt, Andreas, Anttonen, Perttu, Guo, Peng‐Fei, Chen, Jing‐Ting, Zhou, Qing‐Song, Zhang, Nai‐Li, Ma, Ke‐Ping, Bruelheide, Helge, Wu, Chun‐Sheng, Zhu, Chao‐Dong

“…Herbivorous insects acquire microorganisms from host plants or soil, but it remains unclear how the diversity and functional composition of host plants…”
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The phylogeny of insects in the data‐driven era by Chesters, Douglas

“…Maturation of omics and DNA barcode programs along with advances in sequence analysis tools and phyloinformatics protocols are enabling the realization of…”
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Small mammal investigation in spotted fever focus with DNA-barcoding and taxonomic implications on rodents species from Hainan of China by Lu, Liang, Chesters, Douglas, Zhang, Wen, Li, Guichang, Ma, Ying, Ma, Huailei, Song, Xiuping, Wu, Haixia, Meng, Fengxia, Zhu, Chaodong, Liu, Qiyong

“…Although mammals are a well-studied group of animals, making accurate field identification of small mammals is still complex because of morphological variation…”
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MrBayes tgMC³: a tight GPU implementation of MrBayes by Ling, Cheng, Hamada, Tsuyoshi, Bai, Jianing, Li, Xianbin, Chesters, Douglas, Zheng, Weimin, Shi, Weifeng

“…MrBayes is model-based phylogenetic inference tool using Bayesian statistics. However, model-based assessment of phylogenetic trees adds to the computational…”
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Building the Coleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification by BOCAK, LADISLAV, BARTON, CHRISTOPHER, CRAMPTON‐PLATT, ALEX, CHESTERS, DOUGLAS, AHRENS, DIRK, VOGLER, ALFRIED P

“…The species representation of public databases is growing rapidly and permits increasingly detailed phylogenetic inferences. We present a supermatrix based on…”
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Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment by Huang, Yuanyuan, Chen, Yuxin, Castro-Izaguirre, Nadia, Baruffol, Martin, Brezzi, Matteo, Lang, Anne, Li, Ying, Härdtle, Werner, von Oheimb, Goddert, Yang, Xuefei, Liu, Xiaojuan, Pei, Kequan, Both, Sabine, Yang, Bo, Eichenberg, David, Assmann, Thorsten, Bauhus, Jürgen, Behrens, Thorsten, Buscot, François, Chen, Xiao-Yong, Chesters, Douglas, Ding, Bing-Yang, Durka, Walter, Erfmeier, Alexandra, Fang, Jingyun, Fischer, Markus, Guo, Liang-Dong, Guo, Dali, Gutknecht, Jessica L M, He, Jin-Sheng, He, Chun-Ling, Hector, Andy, Hönig, Lydia, Hu, Ren-Yong, Klein, Alexandra-Maria, Kühn, Peter, Liang, Yu, Li, Shan, Michalski, Stefan, Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Schmidt, Karsten, Scholten, Thomas, Schuldt, Andreas, Shi, Xuezheng, Tan, Man-Zhi, Tang, Zhiyao, Trogisch, Stefan, Wang, Zhengwen, Welk, Erik, Wirth, Christian, Wubet, Tesfaye, Xiang, Wenhua, Yu, Mingjian, Yu, Xiao-Dong, Zhang, Jiayong, Zhang, Shouren, Zhang, Naili, Zhou, Hong-Zhang, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Zhu, Li, Bruelheide, Helge, Ma, Keping, Niklaus, Pascal A, Schmid, Bernhard

“…Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests,…”
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution by Orr, Michael C., Hughes, Alice C., Chesters, Douglas, Pickering, John, Zhu, Chao-Dong, Ascher, John S.

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Dark data limit the biological sciences by Orr, Michael C., Albert, Georg, Hughes, Alice C., Koludarov, Ivan, Luo, Arong, Qiao, Huijie, Wang, Ming-Qiang, Chesters, Douglas, Zhu, Chao-Dong

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Host functional and phylogenetic composition rather than host diversity structure plant–herbivore networks by Wang, Ming‐Qiang, Li, Yi, Chesters, Douglas, Bruelheide, Helge, Ma, Keping, Guo, Peng‐Fei, Zhou, Qing‐Song, Staab, Michael, Zhu, Chao‐Dong, Schuldt, Andreas

“…Declining plant diversity alters ecological networks, such as plant–herbivore interactions. However, our knowledge of the potential mechanisms underlying…”
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