Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution.

ABSTRACT: The great capability of insects to adapt to new environments promoted their extraordinary diversification, resulting in the group of Metazoa with the largest number of species distributed worldwide. To understand this enormous diversity, it is essential to investigate lineages that would allow the reconstruction of the early events in the evolution of insects. However, research on insect ecology, physiology, development and evolution has mostly focused on few well-established model species. The key phylogenetic position of mayflies within Paleoptera as the sister group of the rest of winged insects and life history traits of mayflies make them an essential order to understand insect evolution. Here, we describe the establishment of a continuous culture system of the mayfly Cloeon dipter

SUBMITTER: Almudi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6446309 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature