News

Publications

Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes.
BMC Bioinformatics 2017, 18:111, DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1529-8
Petersen et al., 2017, https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-017-1529-8

Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects.
Genome Biol Evol (2016) 8 (12): 3784-3793, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw281
Dowling et al., 2016, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw281

Overcoming the loss of blue sensitivity through opsin duplication in the largest animal group, beetles.
Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 8 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00061-7
Sharkey et al., 2016, http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-00061-7

Decay of sexual trait genes in an asexual parasitoid wasp.
Genome Biol Evol (2016) 8 (12): 3685-3695, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw273
Kraaijeveld et al., 2016, http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/10/gbe.evw273.abstract

Transcriptomic data from arthropods shed new light on the evolution of insulator proteins in insects.
BMC Genomics, 17:861, DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3205-1
Pauli et al., 2016, https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-3205-1

The first anchored enrichment dataset produced for true flies (order Diptera) reveals insights into the phylogeny of flower flies (family Syrphidae) and sets the stage for future large-scale phylogenetic analyses.
BMC Evol Biol. 16:143, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0714-0
Young et al., 2016, https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-016-0714-0

De novo Transcriptome Analysis of The Common New Zealand Stick Insect Clitarchus hookeri (Phasmatodea) Reveals Genes Involved in Olfaction, Digestion and Sexual Reproduction.
PLoS One. Jun 23;11(6):e0157783. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157783
Wu et al., 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157783

Horizontal Gene Transfer of Pectinases from Bacteria Preceded the Diversification of Stick and Leaf Insects.
Scientific Reports, 6:26388, DOI: 10.1038/srep26388
Shelomi et al., 2016, http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26388

BaitFisher: A software package for multi-species target DNA enrichment probe design.
Mol Biol Evol., Jul;33(7):1875-86, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw056
Mayer et al., 2016, http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/7/1875.long

Mitochondrial capture enriches mito-DNA 100 fold, enabling PCR-free mitogenomics biodiversity analysis.
Molecular Ecology Resources, 16 (2):470–479, DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12472
Liu et al., 2016, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.12472/full

Identification of an HV1 Voltage-Gated Proton Channel in Insects.
FEBS J., 283(8):1453-64, DOI: 10.1111/febs.13680
Chaves et al., 2016, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.13680/full

Evolution of neuropeptides in non-pterygote hexapods.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:51, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0621-4
Derst et al., 2016, https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-016-0621-4

The mitochondrial genome of the winter stonefly Apteroperla tikumana (Plecoptera, Capniidae).
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal. 2016 Jul;27(4):3030-2, DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1063120
Zhou et al., 2015, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/19401736.2015.1063120?journalCode=imdn21

Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution".
Science Vol. 349 no. 6247 p. 487, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa7136
Kjer et al., 2015, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6247/487.3

Identification and distribution of SIFamide in the nervous system of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria.
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 523(1): 108–125, DOI: 10.1002/cne.23671
Gellerer et al., 2015, http://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23671

Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution".
Science Vol. 349 no. 6247 p. 487, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa7136
Kjer et al., 2015, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6247/487.3

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution
Science Vol. 346 no. 6210 pp. 763-767, DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570
Misof et al., 2014, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6210/763


cited by Nature Research Highlights: Insect natural history traced. Nature 515, 166 (13 November 2014), doi:10.1038/515166c

press releases below

Radio, Video

ScienceFriday, NPR Show USA, Michelle Trautwein: Piecing Together the Puzzle of Insect Evolution
[07th November 2014]


Radio New Zealand, Thomas Buckley: Insect Evolution
[08th November 2014]


AAAS, Science: Insects Evolved with Earth's First Land Plants [video]

[15th November 2014]


Radio Bayern 2, Germany, IQ - Wissenschaft & Forschung. Magazin
IQ - Wissenschaft & Forschung. Magazin
Bernhard Misof, Rolf Beutel: Evolution of Insects
[12 November 2014, 6.05 p.m., start: minute 11, in German]


BR Rundschau Magazin, Germany, DNA-Analyse: Fortschritte in der Insektenforschung
BR Rundschau Magazin
Bernhard Misof, Rolf Beutel: Evolution of Insects
[29 Nov 2014, 21:55, Bavaria Television, complete magazine; ca. minute 12, length ca. 2 minutes, in German]


Deutschlandfunk, Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, Germany, Biologie: Ordnung im Geäst: Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt: Der neue Stammbaum der Vögel und Insekten
Deutschlandfunk, Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt
Jes Rust, Torsten Wappler, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Alexandros Stamatakis
[02 Feb 2015, Deutschlandfunk, 26 minutes, in German and English]



Congress talks on 1KITE

Upcoming:

Entommologentagung 2017, March 13-16, Munich, Germany
http://www.dgaae.de/index.php/entomologentagung-2017.html

8th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny, September 22-24, Dresden, Germany
http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=66&cms_veranstaltung_id=236


Past:

XXV International Congress of Entomology (+ 64 ESA Annual Meeting) Orlando, FL, USA, 25 - 30 Sep 2016
various talks have been presented from the 1KITE consortium or related projects. Symposium: Progress in Insect Phylogenomics: The Scale and Complexity of Next-Gen Datasets and Analyses
1KITE
https://esa.confex.com/esa/ice2016/meetingapp.cgi/Session/25087

63th ESA Annual Meeting, American Entomological Society (November 2015) Minniapolis, MN, USA, 15 - 18 Nov 2015
various talks have been presented from the 1KITE consortium or related projects
1KITE
http://entsoc.org/entomology2015/program-and-speakers

7th International Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny (September 2015) Dresden, Germany, 25 - 27 Sep 2015
various talks have been presented from the 1KITE consortium or related projects
1KITE
http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/tierkunde/coleoptera/programme-insectphyl2015-08-18.pdf

19th Annual Phylogenomics New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, Portobello, New Zealand, 01 - 06 Feb 2015
Fly-Phylogenomics based on more than 2,000 orthologs: preliminary results and challenges
Karen Meusemann, David Yeates
http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/bio/events/portobello2015/files/Portobello_Programme.pdf

62th ESA Annual Meeting, American Entomological Society, Portland, Oregon, USA, 16 - 19 Nov 2014
talks see
http://www.entsoc.org/entomology2014

Annual Meeting of the Australian Entomological Society (50th Anniversary) September 28 - October 1 2014, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Inferring deep insect phylogenetic relationships using data from genomes and transcriptomes: research initiatives, methods, results, and prospects
Oliver Niehuis
http://www.aesconferences.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Program-update-at-24-September-AES-2014-Conference.pdf

107th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), September 11-14, Goettingen, Germany
talks of Bernhard Misof, Alexander Blanke and others
http://www.dzg-2014.de/programme-17.html

9th International Seminar on Apterygota September 7 - 11 2014, Goerlitz, Germany
First steps on six legs - A phylogenomic approach to unravel the early evolution of insects
Daniela Bartel et al. (1KITE Basal Hexapod Subgroup)

8th International Congress of Dipterology August 10 - 15 2014, Potsdam, Germany
Various talks from the 1KITE initiative. Please refer to the program of the ICD 8 meeting:
http://www.contoo.de/index.php/file/1106/en_US

10th European Congress of Entomology August 3 - 8 2014, York, UK
Various talks from the 1KITE initiative. Please refer to the program of the ECE meeting:
http://www.royensoc.co.uk/meetings/20140803_ece2014.htm

50th Annual Meeting of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan July 3 - 4 2014, Tokyo, Japan
The 1KITE project & and first results on phylogenomics of apterygote hexapods
Karen Meusemann et al. (Basal Hexapod Subgroup), on the behalf of 1KITE

Evolution 2014, June 20 - 24 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA
Various talks and posters were provided by members from the 1KITE initiative. Please refer to the program of the Evolution meeting:
http://evolution2014.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Evolution2014-FinalProgram-11June2014.pdf

BioDivEvo 2014, Mar 24-27 March24 - 27, 2014, Dresden, Germany
Phylogenomics sheds new light on the evolutionary history of insects – results from the international 1KITE project
Oliver Niehuis, on the behalf of 1KITE

61th ESA 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Nov 10 - 14, 2013, Texas, USA
Progress in insect phylogeny from the 1KITE initiative
Karl M. Kjer, on the behalf of 1KITE
http://esa.confex.com/esa/2013/webprogram/start.html

Phylomania, November 6 - 8, 2013, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1000 Insect Transcriptomes – taking the next step in insect phylogenomics
Karen Meusemann, on the behalf of 1KITE
http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/phylomania/phylomania2013.htm

6th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny, September 27 - 29, 2013 , Dresden, Germany
There were several talks coming from 1KITE consortium
Ralph Peters, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, on the behalf of 1KITE
http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14401&PHPSESSID=s0l6cql9uqe3tq8kd26d1koj9mgfcf8b

Big Data Workshop , September 3-4, 2013, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The 1000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution project 1KITE - An example of handling "Big Data" from Evolutionary Biology
Karen Meusemann, on the behalf of 1KITE
http://www.utas.edu.au/research/events/2013/september/big-data-workshop

XXXII Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society , August 3-7, 2013, Rostock, Germany
Reconstructing the insect tree of life: orthology prediction in the large scale transcriptome project 1KITE
Oliver Niehuis and Malte Petersen
http://www.zoologie.uni-rostock.de/fileadmin/MathNat_Bio_Zoologie/Abstractband_WHS2013.pdf

Biodiversity Genomics Conference, April 2 - 5, 2013, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Phylogenomics and the evolution of insects - The 1KITE project
Bernhard Misof
http://cba.anu.edu.au/news-events/cba-biodiversity-genomics-conference/program

60th ESA 2012, Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, November 11, 2012, , Knoxville, TN, USA
The 1KITE project
Karl M. Kjer [on the behalf of the 1KITE consortium]

Seminar, Laboratory for Molecular Systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM), October 15, 2012, Vienna, Austria
Phylogenomik und der Ursprung der Hexapoda innerhalb des 1KITE Projekts [open for public, in german]
Nikola Szuscich and Daniela Bartel

Evolutionary Colloquium, Department of Entomology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, October 3, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
Phylogenomics and the evolution of insects The 1KITE project
Bernhard Misof [on the behalf of the 1KITE consortium]

German Zoological Society 105th Annual Meeting, September 21 - 24, 2012, Konstanz, Germany
Insect phylogenetics in the era of genomics.
Oliver Niehuis
http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/dzg/conference-program/

XXIV International Congress of Entomology, August 19-25, 2012, Daegu, South Korea
Phylogenomics and the evolution of insects — The 1KITE project.
Bernhard Misof [on the behalf of the 1KITE consortium]
http://edunabi.com/~ice2012

Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, SMBE 2012, June 23-26, 2012, Dublin, Ireland
1000 Insect Transcriptomes — the 1KITE project takes the next step in insect phylogenomics.
Karen Meusemann, Ralph S. Peters, Karl M. Kjer, Xin Zhou, Bernhard Misof [on the behalf of the 1KITE consortium]
http://www.smbe2012.org

6th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium: Arthropod genomics 2012, May 30 - June 2, 2012, Kansas City, USA
The 1KITE transcriptomics initiative.
Karl M. Kjer, Bernhard Misof, Xin Zhou
http://www.k-state.edu/agc/symp2012

Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, February 23-25, 2012, ZFMK, Bonn, Germany
Joining forces to unravel the evolution of insects — an introduction to the 1KITE project.
Ralph S. Peters (on behalf of the 1KITE consortium)
http://zfmk.de/web/Forschung/Tagungen/2012/201202_GfBS/index.en.html

1KITE press releases

2014

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution - Press releases
Overview Science Article Metrics
http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=www.sciencemag.org&doi=10.1126/science.1257570
AlphaGalileo: Scientists resolve the evolution of insects
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=147009&CultureCode=en
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=147009&CultureCode=de
[07th November 2014]


2013

1KITE in nano - 3Sat (Germany)
nano - wissen: Das große Krabbeln - Forscher analysieren Gene von1000 Insektenarten
http://www.ndr.de/info/programm/sendungen/logo_das_wissenschaftsmagazin/insekten107.html
[2013]

2012

University of Jena
http://www.focus.de/wissen/diverses/forschung-neuer-insekten-stammbaum-soll-bis-2013-vollstaendig-sein_aid_811980.html
[24th September 2012]

1KITE in the German Radio (NDR)
NDR Info - Logo - das Wissenschaftsmagazin Das 1KITE-Projekt: Martin Kubiak and Frank Friedrich
http://www.ndr.de/info/programm/sendungen/logo_das_wissenschaftsmagazin/insekten107.html
[24th April 2012]

Ö1 (Austrian Radio)
Hören Sie einen Auszug aus der Ö1 Sendung "Dimensionen - die Welt der Wissenschaft" zum Thema "Sind die Insekten eigentlich Krebse?" von Sabrina Adlbrecht vom Freitag, 06. April 2012 um 19:05 Uhr in oe1.ORF.at. language: German (only available until July, 12th)
http://apasfftp1.apa.at/oe1/programm/0000C1B2.MP3
[16th April 2012]

VBIO
http://www.vbio.de/informationen/alle_news/e17162?news_id=13714
[10th April 2012]

University of Vienna
http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/forschung/detailansicht/artikel/sind-insekten-krebse/
[3rd April 2012]

University of Vienna
http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/evolution-sind-die-insekten-krebse/
[3rd April 2012]

Universität Hamburg
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsletter/Wanzen-Zikaden-und-ihre-Verwandten-Hamburger-Wissenschaftler-helfen-die-Evolution-der-Insekten-zu-entschluesseln.html
[1st March 2012]

NDR Info - Logo - das Wissenschaftsmagazin
Insektenforschung und Ökosystem: Bernhard Misof
http://www.ndr.de/info/audio104625.html
[26th February 2012]

Hamburger Abendblatt
http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/wissen/article2197185/Bauarbeiten-am-Stammbaum-der-Insekten.html
[25th February 2012]

Biovalley
http://www.biovalley.com/content.cfm?nav=6andcontent=19andcommand=detailsandid=19013
[21st February 2012]

HITS, Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.bio-pro.de/magazin/thema/00145/index.html?lang=deandartikelid=/artikel/07639/index.html
[20th February 2012]

English and Chinese news releases at BGI's webpages
http://chinese.eurekalert.org/en/pub_releases/2012-02/bs-nir020612.php
[6th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.regioweb.de/details/meldung/ein-stammbaum-fuer-insekten/
[6th February 2012]

ZFMK, Bonn, Germany
http://www.vbio.de/informationen/alle_news/e17162?news_id=13385
[6th February 2012]

Hamburger Abendblatt
http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/wissen/article2179422/Hamburger-bauen-den-Stammbaum-der-Insekten.html
[6th February 2012]

Press release of Rutgers facility research news
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/newark-2012/rutgers-scientists-s-20120131/?searchterm=1kite
[6th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.thueringen-universal.de/wissen/zoologen-der-uni-jena-internationalem-forschungsprojekt-beteiligt
[5th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.jenapolis.de/2012/02/zoologen-der-universitat-jena-an-internationalem-forschungsprojekt-beteiligt/
[5th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.uni-jena.de/Mitteilungen/PM120204_1KITE.html
[4th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.pressrelations.de/new/standard/result_main.cfm?pfach=1andn_firmanr_=101449andsektor=pmanddetail=1andr=482382andsid=andaktion=jour_pmandquelle=0andquery=1kite
[4th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/natur/biologie/nbzoo945.html
[4th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.thueringen-reporter.de/top-thema/1kite-projekt
[4th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://www.jenatv.de/wissenschaft/Jenaer_Zoologen_an_internationalem_Forschungsprojekt__beteiligt___-7361.html
[4th February 2012]

University of Jena
http://idw-online.de/de/news462105
[4th February 2012]

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=116820andCultureCode=de
[3rd February 2012]

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=116820andCultureCode=en
[3rd February 2012]

http://legalnews.findlaw.com/article/03g6fxn8e9cBn?q=Europe+OR+Asia+OR
[3rd February 2012]

Innovations report - Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/startschuss_neue_internationale_forschungsinitiative_189752.html
[3rd February 2012]

University online
http://www.uni-online.de/presse.php?id=462049
[3rd February 2012]

HITS, Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.h-its.org/deutsch/presse/index.php?we_objectID=853andpid=0
[3rd February 2012]

ZFMK, Bonn, Germany
http://idw-online.de/de/news462039
[2nd February 2012]

ZFMK, Bonn, Germany
http://idw-online.de/en/news462049
[2nd February 2012]

University of Tsukuba, Japan
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/topics/20120118133759.html
[17th January 2012]