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Beetles Phylogeny, Evolution, and Diversity: Past, Present, and Future
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Beetles Phylogeny, Evolution, and Diversity: Past, Present, and Future

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Phylogeny and Evolution".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 2947

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Dagmara Żyła

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Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Zoological Museum Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Interests: Coleoptera; phylogeny; Staphylinidae; evolution

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Beetles (the insect order Coleoptera) are the largest group of animals, common in nearly any habitable terrestrial landscape on Earth, and widely interacting with other forms of life and inorganic nature. Their evolution is a fascinating cross-disciplinary subject of the natural sciences that aims to document the present, explain the past, and model the future of our biosphere. Recent advancements in next-generation sequencing methods have opened up new possibilities for studying beetle diversity, while novel imaging techniques for fossils have brought us further than ever before in linking the past with the present.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the various aspects of beetle research, explaining the evolutionary processes shaping the current diversity and phylogenetic relationships of this group. Reviews and articles including any of these topics, ranging from phylogeny-based systematics of extinct and extant taxa to comparative phylogenetic methods across different beetle clades, are invited.

Dr. Dagmara Żyła
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • evolution
  • Coleoptera
  • phylogenetic relationships
  • multilocus phylogeny
  • biodiversity
  • systematics
  • fossils
  • phylogenomics
  • micro-CT

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Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit II: Potential Marker for the Identification of Forensically Significant Species of Coleoptera—A Preliminary Study
by Neha Singh, Drishtant Singh, Anup Kumar Kesavan, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, Mohammed A. Alshehri, Samy Sayed, Mohammad Javed Ansari and Madhu Bala
Diversity 2022, 14(5), 369; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050369 - 6 May 2022
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The foremost concern in forensic entomology is the explicit identification of the species recovered from the crime scene. From the different orders of insects, Diptera is the prime focus in this field, followed by Coleoptera, whose identification can be extremely helpful for corpses [...] Read more.
The foremost concern in forensic entomology is the explicit identification of the species recovered from the crime scene. From the different orders of insects, Diptera is the prime focus in this field, followed by Coleoptera, whose identification can be extremely helpful for corpses in later decomposition stages. In this study, cytochrome oxidase subunit II (COII) was used to check its adequacy as a genetic marker and to create a reference database for eleven species belonging to five families of Coleoptera, namely, Silphidae, Staphylinidae, Histeridae, Dermestidae and Scarabaeidae, from two different states in India to assist in the accurate identification of imperative beetle species in medico-legal entomology. To achieve this, standard protocols of DNA isolation, amplification and sequencing were followed. We concluded that the COII gene can be used as a molecular marker for the identification of forensically relevant species, as observed from the similarities between the phylogenetic relationship constructed by COII and morphological data. Full article
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