%0 Journal Article %J BMC Ecol Evol %D 2021 %T Correction to: Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects. %A Petersen, Malte %A Armisén, David %A Richard A Gibbs %A Hering, Lars %A Khila, Abderrahman %A Mayer, Georg %A Stephen Richards %A Niehuis, Oliver %A Misof, Bernhard %B BMC Ecol Evol %V 21 %P 146 %8 2021 Jul 16 %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34271865?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1186/s12862-021-01778-w %0 Journal Article %J Genome Biol %D 2020 %T Gene content evolution in the arthropods. %A Thomas, Gregg W C %A Dohmen, Elias %A Hughes, Daniel S T %A Murali, Shwetha C %A Poelchau, Monica %A Glastad, Karl %A Anstead, Clare A %A Ayoub, Nadia A %A Batterham, Phillip %A Bellair, Michelle %A Binford, Greta J %A Chao, Hsu %A Chen, Yolanda H %A Childers, Christopher %A Dinh, Huyen %A Harshavardhan Doddapaneni %A Duan, Jian J %A Dugan, Shannon %A Esposito, Lauren A %A Friedrich, Markus %A Garb, Jessica %A Gasser, Robin B %A Goodisman, Michael A D %A Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E %A Yi Han %A Handler, Alfred M %A Hatakeyama, Masatsugu %A Hering, Lars %A Hunter, Wayne B %A Ioannidis, Panagiotis %A Jayaseelan, Joy C %A Kalra, Divya %A Khila, Abderrahman %A Korhonen, Pasi K %A Lee, Carol Eunmi %A Lee, Sandra L %A Li, Yiyuan %A Lindsey, Amelia R I %A Mayer, Georg %A McGregor, Alistair P %A McKenna, Duane D %A Misof, Bernhard %A Munidasa, Mala %A Munoz-Torres, Monica %A Donna M Muzny %A Niehuis, Oliver %A Osuji-Lacy, Nkechinyere %A Palli, Subba R %A Panfilio, Kristen A %A Pechmann, Matthias %A Perry, Trent %A Peters, Ralph S %A Poynton, Helen C %A Prpic, Nikola-Michael %A Qu, Jiaxin %A Rotenberg, Dorith %A Schal, Coby %A Schoville, Sean D %A Scully, Erin D %A Skinner, Evette %A Sloan, Daniel B %A Stouthamer, Richard %A Strand, Michael R %A Szucsich, Nikolaus U %A Wijeratne, Asela %A Young, Neil D %A Zattara, Eduardo E %A Benoit, Joshua B %A Zdobnov, Evgeny M %A Pfrender, Michael E %A Hackett, Kevin J %A Werren, John H %A Kim C Worley %A Richard A Gibbs %A Chipman, Ariel D %A Waterhouse, Robert M %A Bornberg-Bauer, Erich %A Hahn, Matthew W %A Stephen Richards %K Animals %K Arthropods %K DNA Methylation %K Evolution, Molecular %K Genetic Speciation %K Genetic Variation %K Phylogeny %X

BACKGROUND: Arthropods comprise the largest and most diverse phylum on Earth and play vital roles in nearly every ecosystem. Their diversity stems in part from variations on a conserved body plan, resulting from and recorded in adaptive changes in the genome. Dissection of the genomic record of sequence change enables broad questions regarding genome evolution to be addressed, even across hyper-diverse taxa within arthropods.

RESULTS: Using 76 whole genome sequences representing 21 orders spanning more than 500 million years of arthropod evolution, we document changes in gene and protein domain content and provide temporal and phylogenetic context for interpreting these innovations. We identify many novel gene families that arose early in the evolution of arthropods and during the diversification of insects into modern orders. We reveal unexpected variation in patterns of DNA methylation across arthropods and examples of gene family and protein domain evolution coincident with the appearance of notable phenotypic and physiological adaptations such as flight, metamorphosis, sociality, and chemoperception.

CONCLUSIONS: These analyses demonstrate how large-scale comparative genomics can provide broad new insights into the genotype to phenotype map and generate testable hypotheses about the evolution of animal diversity.

%B Genome Biol %V 21 %P 15 %8 2020 Jan 23 %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31969194?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1186/s13059-019-1925-7 %0 Journal Article %J BMC Evol Biol %D 2019 %T Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects. %A Petersen, Malte %A Armisén, David %A Richard A Gibbs %A Hering, Lars %A Khila, Abderrahman %A Mayer, Georg %A Richards, Stephen %A Niehuis, Oliver %A Misof, Bernhard %K Animals %K Antarctic Regions %K Base Sequence %K DNA Transposable Elements %K Evolution, Molecular %K Genetic Variation %K Genome Size %K Genome, Insect %K Insecta %K Phylogeny %X

BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TEs) are a major component of metazoan genomes and are associated with a variety of mechanisms that shape genome architecture and evolution. Despite the ever-growing number of insect genomes sequenced to date, our understanding of the diversity and evolution of insect TEs remains poor.

RESULTS: Here, we present a standardized characterization and an order-level comparison of arthropod TE repertoires, encompassing 62 insect and 11 outgroup species. The insect TE repertoire contains TEs of almost every class previously described, and in some cases even TEs previously reported only from vertebrates and plants. Additionally, we identified a large fraction of unclassifiable TEs. We found high variation in TE content, ranging from less than 6% in the antarctic midge (Diptera), the honey bee and the turnip sawfly (Hymenoptera) to more than 58% in the malaria mosquito (Diptera) and the migratory locust (Orthoptera), and a possible relationship between the content and diversity of TEs and the genome size.

CONCLUSION: While most insect orders exhibit a characteristic TE composition, we also observed intraordinal differences, e.g., in Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera. Our findings shed light on common patterns and reveal lineage-specific differences in content and evolution of TEs in insects. We anticipate our study to provide the basis for future comparative research on the insect TE repertoire.

%B BMC Evol Biol %V 19 %P 11 %8 2019 Jan 09 %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30626321?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1186/s12862-018-1324-9