Search Results - "Letsch, Harald"

Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera by Song, Hojun, Béthoux, Olivier, Shin, Seunggwan, Donath, Alexander, Letsch, Harald, Liu, Shanlin, McKenna, Duane D., Meng, Guanliang, Misof, Bernhard, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Zhou, Xin, Wipfler, Benjamin, Simon, Sabrina

“…Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale…”
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The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity by McKenna, Duane D., Shin, Seunggwan, Ahrens, Dirk, Balke, Michael, Beza-Beza, Cristian, Clarke, Dave J., Donath, Alexander, Escalona, Hermes E., Friedrich, Frank, Letsch, Harald, Liu, Shanlin, Maddison, David, Mayer, Christoph, Misof, Bernhard, Murin, Peyton J., Niehuis, Oliver, Peters, Ralph S., Podsiadlowski, Lars, Pohl, Hans, Scully, Erin D., Yan, Evgeny V., Zhou, Xin, Ślipiński, Adam, Beutel, Rolf G.

“…The order Coleoptera (beetles) is arguably the most speciose group of animals, but the evolutionary history of beetles, including the impacts of plant feeding…”
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Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects by Wipfler, Benjamin, Letsch, Harald, Frandsen, Paul B., Kapli, Paschalia, Mayer, Christoph, Bartel, Daniela, Buckley, Thomas R., Donath, Alexander, Edgerly-Rooks, Janice S., Fujita, Mari, Liu, Shanlin, Machida, Ryuichiro, Mashimo, Yuta, Misof, Bernhard, Niehuis, Oliver, Peters, Ralph S., Petersen, Malte, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Schütte, Kai, Shimizu, Shota, Uchifune, Toshiki, Wilbrandt, Jeanne, Yan, Evgeny, Zhou, Xin, Simon, Sabrina

“…Polyneoptera represents one of the major lineages of winged insects, comprising around 40,000 extant species in 10 traditional orders, including grasshoppers,…”
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Insect phylogenomics: new insights on the relationships of lower neopteran orders (Polyneoptera) by LETSCH, HARALD, SIMON, SABRINA

“…The branching pattern of the diverse lower neopteran insect lineages (Polyneoptera: cockroaches, mantids, earwigs, grasshoppers, phasmids etc.) is the least…”
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Transgressing Wallace's Line brings hyperdiverse weevils down to earth by Letsch, Harald, Balke, Michael, Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa, Fiedler, Konrad, Riedel, Alexander

“…Wallace's Line, located in the heart of the Indo‐Australian archipelago, has historically been hypothesized to strongly inhibit dispersal. Taxa crossing this…”
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Potential pitfalls of modelling ribosomal RNA data in phylogenetic tree reconstruction: evidence from case studies in the Metazoa by Letsch, Harald O, Kjer, Karl M

“…Failure to account for covariation patterns in helical regions of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes has the potential to misdirect the estimation of the phylogenetic…”
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Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships by von Reumont, Björn M, Meusemann, Karen, Szucsich, Nikolaus U, Dell'Ampio, Emiliano, Gowri-Shankar, Vivek, Bartel, Daniela, Simon, Sabrina, Letsch, Harald O, Stocsits, Roman R, Luan, Yun-xia, Wägele, Johann Wolfgang, Pass, Günther, Hadrys, Heike, Misof, Bernhard

“…Whenever different data sets arrive at conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses, only testable causal explanations of sources of errors in at least one of the data…”
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Author Correction: Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera by Song, Hojun, Béthoux, Olivier, Shin, Seunggwan, Donath, Alexander, Letsch, Harald, Liu, Shanlin, McKenna, Duane D., Meng, Guanliang, Misof, Bernhard, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Zhou, Xin, Wipfler, Benjamin, Simon, Sabrina

“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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Old World and New World Phasmatodea: Phylogenomics Resolve the Evolutionary History of Stick and Leaf Insects by Simon, Sabrina, Letsch, Harald, Bank, Sarah, Buckley, Thomas R., Donath, Alexander, Liu, Shanlin, Machida, Ryuichiro, Meusemann, Karen, Misof, Bernhard, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Zhou, Xin, Wipfler, Benjamin, Bradler, Sven

“…Phasmatodea comprises over 3,000 extant species and stands out as one of the last remaining insect orders for which a robust, higher-level phylogenetic…”
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Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago by Letsch, Harald, Balke, Michael, Kusy, Dominik, McKenna, Duane D., Pramesa Narakusumo, Raden, Sagata, Katayo, Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., White, Lloyd T., Riedel, Alexander

“…The geologically‐complex Indo–Australian–Melanesian archipelago (IAMA) hosts extraordinarily high levels of species richness and endemism and has long served…”
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Revival of Palaeoptera—head characters support a monophyletic origin of Odonata and Ephemeroptera (Insecta) by Blanke, Alexander, Wipfler, Benjamin, Letsch, Harald, Koch, Markus, Beckmann, Felix, Beutel, Rolf, Misof, Bernhard

“…The earliest branching event in winged insects, one of the core problems regarding early insect evolution, was addressed using characters of the head. The head…”
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The impact of rRNA secondary structure consideration in alignment and tree reconstruction: simulated data and a case study on the phylogeny of hexapods by Letsch, Harald O, Kück, Patrick, Stocsits, Roman R, Misof, Bernhard

“…The use of secondary structures has been advocated to improve both the alignment and the tree reconstruction processes of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) data sets. We…”
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Insect phylogenomics: results, problems and the impact of matrix composition by Letsch, Harald O., Meusemann, Karen, Wipfler, Benjamin, Schütte, Kai, Beutel, Rolf, Misof, Bernhard

“…In this study, we investigated the relationships among insect orders with a main focus on Polyneoptera (lower Neoptera: roaches, mantids, earwigs,…”
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Timing and host plant associations in the evolution of the weevil tribe Apionini (Apioninae, Brentidae, Curculionoidea, Coleoptera) indicate an ancient co-diversification pattern of beetles and flowering plants by Winter, Sven, Friedman, Ariel L.L., Astrin, Jonas J., Gottsberger, Brigitte, Letsch, Harald

“…[Display omitted] •First comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the weevil tribe Apionini.•Divergence time estimations suggest appearance of Apionini in the…”
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Evolutionary history and divergence times of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) revealed through transcriptomics by Kohli, Manpreet, Letsch, Harald, Greve, Carola, Béthoux, Olivier, Deregnaucourt, Isabelle, Liu, Shanlin, Zhou, Xin, Donath, Alexander, Mayer, Christoph, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Gunkel, Simon, Machida, Ryuichiro, Niehuis, Oliver, Rust, Jes, Wappler, Torsten, Yu, Xin, Misof, Bernhard, Ware, Jessica

“…Dragonflies and damselflies are among the earliest flying insects with extant representatives. However, unraveling details of their long evolutionary history,…”
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Simultaneous alignment and folding of 28S rRNA sequences uncovers phylogenetic signal in structure variation by Letsch, Harald O., Greve, Carola, Kück, Patrick, Fleck, Günther, Stocsits, Roman R., Misof, Bernhard

“…Secondary structure models of mitochondrial and nuclear (r)RNA sequences are frequently applied to aid the alignment of these molecules in phylogenetic…”
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Molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic butterfly genus Pseudophilotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with focus on the Sardinian endemic P. barbagiae by Todisco, Valentina, Grill, Andrea, Fiedler, Konrad, Gottsberger, Brigitte, Dincă, Vlad, Vodă, Raluca, Lukhtanov, Vladimir, Letsch, Harald

“…Background The Palaearctic butterfly genus Pseudophilotes Beuret, 1958 (Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), that today occurs in North Africa and in Eurasia, includes…”
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Morphological and Molecular Perspectives on the Phylogeny, Evolution, and Classification of Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): Proceedings from the 2016 International Weevil Meeting by McKenna, Duane, Clarke, Dave, Anderson, Robert, Astrin, Jonas, Brown, Samuel, Chamorro, Lourdes, Davis, Steven, de Medeiros, Bruno, del Rio, M., Haran, Julien, Kuschel, Guillermo, Franz, Nico, Jordal, Bjarte, Lanteri, Analia, Leschen, Richard, Letsch, Harald, Lyal, Chris, Marvaldi, Adriana, Mermudes, Jose, Oberprieler, Rolf, Schütte, André, Sequeira, Andrea, Shin, Seunggwan, Van Dam, Matthew, Zhang, Guanyang

“…The 2016 International Weevil Meeting was held immediately after the International Congress of Entomology (ICE). It built on the topics and content of the 2016…”
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Phylogenetic support values are not necessarily informative: the case of the Serialia hypothesis (a mollusk phylogeny) by Wägele, J Wolfgang, Letsch, Harald, Klussmann-Kolb, Annette, Mayer, Christoph, Misof, Bernhard, Wägele, Heike

“…Molecular phylogenies are being published increasingly and many biologists rely on the most recent topologies. However, different phylogenetic trees often…”
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Jumping to new hosts: the diversification of flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) in the context of their host plant associations by Letsch, Harald, Beran, Franziska

“…Flea beetles (Alticini) represent one of the most diverse groups within the family Chrysomelidae and are associated with more than 100 different plant…”
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