By land, air, and sea: hemipteran diversity through the genomic lens

Kristen A Panfilio, David R Angelini
2018 Current Opinion in Insect Science  
Thanks to a recent spate of sequencing projects, the Hemiptera are the first hemimetabolous insect order to achieve a critical mass of species with sequenced genomes, establishing the basis for comparative genomics of the bugs. However, as the most speciose hemimetabolous order, there is still a vast swathe of the hemipteran phylogeny that awaits genomic representation across subterranean, terrestrial, and aquatic habitats, and with lineage-specific and developmentally plastic cases of both
more » ... polyphenisms and flightlessness. In this review, we highlight opportunities for taxonomic sampling beyond obvious pest species candidates, motivated by intriguing biological features of certain groups as well as the rich research tradition of ecological, physiological, developmental, and particularly cytogenetic investigation that spans the diversity of the Hemiptera. Addresses
doi:10.1016/j.cois.2017.12.005 pmid:29602356 fatcat:wbqwymft3nbuhht6zxoqllvm2u