Launching insectphylo.org; a new hub facilitating construction and use of synthesis molecular phylogenies of insects
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In: Molecular Ecology Resources, Vol. 23, No. 7, 10.2023, p. 1556-1573.
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T1 - Launching insectphylo.org; a new hub facilitating construction and use of synthesis molecular phylogenies of insects
AU - Chesters, Douglas
AU - Ferrari, Rafael R.
AU - Lin, Xiaolong
AU - Orr, Michael C.
AU - Staab, Michael
AU - Zhu, Chao Dong
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - The Holy Grail of an Insect Tree of Life can only be ‘discovered’ through extensive collaboration among taxon specialists, phylogeneticists and centralized frameworks such as Open Tree of Life, but insufficient effort from stakeholders has so far hampered this promising approach. The resultant unavailability of synthesis phylogenies is an unfortunate situation given the numerous practical usages of phylogenies in the near term and against the backdrop of the ongoing biodiversity crisis. To resolve this issue, we establish a new online hub that centralizes the collation of relevant phylogenetic data and provides the resultant synthesis molecular phylogenies. This is achieved through key developments in a proposed pipeline for the construction of a species-level insect phylogeny. The functionality of the framework is demonstrated through the construction of a highly supported, species-comprehensive phylogeny of Diptera, built from integrated omics data, COI DNA barcodes, and a compiled database of over 100 standardized, published Diptera phylogenies. Machine-readable forms of the phylogeny (and subsets thereof) are publicly available at insectphylo.org, a new public repository for species-comprehensive phylogenies for biological research.
AB - The Holy Grail of an Insect Tree of Life can only be ‘discovered’ through extensive collaboration among taxon specialists, phylogeneticists and centralized frameworks such as Open Tree of Life, but insufficient effort from stakeholders has so far hampered this promising approach. The resultant unavailability of synthesis phylogenies is an unfortunate situation given the numerous practical usages of phylogenies in the near term and against the backdrop of the ongoing biodiversity crisis. To resolve this issue, we establish a new online hub that centralizes the collation of relevant phylogenetic data and provides the resultant synthesis molecular phylogenies. This is achieved through key developments in a proposed pipeline for the construction of a species-level insect phylogeny. The functionality of the framework is demonstrated through the construction of a highly supported, species-comprehensive phylogeny of Diptera, built from integrated omics data, COI DNA barcodes, and a compiled database of over 100 standardized, published Diptera phylogenies. Machine-readable forms of the phylogeny (and subsets thereof) are publicly available at insectphylo.org, a new public repository for species-comprehensive phylogenies for biological research.
KW - DNA barcode
KW - insects
KW - phylogenetic database
KW - phyloinformatics
KW - synthesis phylogeny
KW - Biology
KW - Ecosystems Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85161395634&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1755-0998.13817
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.13817
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 37265018
AN - SCOPUS:85161395634
VL - 23
SP - 1556
EP - 1573
JO - Molecular Ecology Resources
JF - Molecular Ecology Resources
SN - 1755-098X
IS - 7
ER -