Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects.

ABSTRACT: Polyneoptera represents one of the major lineages of winged insects, comprising around 40,000 extant species in 10 traditional orders, including grasshoppers, roaches, and stoneflies. Many important aspects of polyneopteran evolution, such as their phylogenetic relationships, changes in their external appearance, their habitat preferences, and social behavior, are unresolved and are a major enigma in entomology. These ambiguities also have direct consequences for our understanding of the evolution of winged insects in general; for example, with respect to the ancestral habitats of adults and juveniles. We addressed these issues with a large-scale phylogenomic analysis and used the reconstructed phylogenetic relationships to trace the evolution of 112 characters associated with the external

SUBMITTER: Wipfler B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6386694 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature