1. An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea)
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Ward Tollenaar, Ralph S. Peters, Dominic A. Evangelista, Bernhard Misof, Frédéric Legendre, Olivier Béthoux, Karen Meusemann, Kai Schuette, Jes Rust, Ryuichiro Machida, Benjamin Wipfler, Shanlin Liu, Torsten Wappler, Lars Podsiadlowski, Xin Zhou, Jessica L. Ware, Alexander Donath, Mari Fujita, Sabrina Simon, Manpreet K. Kohli, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany], Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Université des Antilles (UA)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Center for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research (ZMB), Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukuba, Federated Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and NJIT, Beijing Genomics Institute [Shenzhen] (BGI), Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research (ZMB), Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Steinmann-Institute, Institute for Paleontology, University of Bonn, Animal Ecology and Conservation, Zoological Institute, University of Hamburg, Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University and Research, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, and Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Institute for Biology I, University of Freiburg
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0106 biological sciences ,Systematics ,Evolution ,Cockroaches ,Isoptera ,[SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Transcriptomes ,03 medical and health sciences ,Blattodea ,Nest ,biology.animal ,transcriptomes ,Animals ,systematics ,Sociality ,Phylogeny ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,030304 developmental biology ,General Environmental Science ,0303 health sciences ,Cockroach ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,Palaeontology ,Lamproblattidae ,General Medicine ,sociality ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,Biosystematiek ,Evolutionary biology ,Cryptocercus ,isoptera ,Corydioidea ,Biosystematics ,Maternal care ,maternal care ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Abstract
Phylogenetic relationships among subgroups of cockroaches and termites are still matters of debate. Their divergence times and major phenotypic transitions during evolution are also not yet settled. We addressed these points by combining the first nuclear phylogenomic study of termites and cockroaches with a thorough approach to divergence time analysis, identification of endosymbionts, and reconstruction of ancestral morphological traits and behaviour. Analyses of the phylogenetic relationships within Blattodea robustly confirm previously uncertain hypotheses such as the sister-group relationship between Blaberoidea and remaining Blattodea, and Lamproblatta being the closest relative to the social and wood-feeding Cryptocercus and termites. Consequently, we propose new names for various clades in Blattodea: Cryptocercus + termites = Tutricablattae; Lamproblattidae + Tutricablattae = Kittrickea; and Blattoidea + Corydioidea = Solumblattodea. Our inferred divergence times contradict previous studies by showing that most subgroups of Blattodea evolved in the Cretaceous, reducing the gap between molecular estimates of divergence times and the fossil record. On a phenotypic level, the blattodean ground-plan is for egg packages to be laid directly in a hole while other forms of oviposition, including ovovivipary and vivipary, arose later. Finally, other changes in egg care strategy may have allowed for the adaptation of nest building and other novelties.
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- 2019