Behura S K
Eck Institute for Global Health and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Insect Mol Biol. 2015 Aug;24(4):403-11. doi: 10.1111/imb.12174. Epub 2015 May 12.
Phylogenomics, the integration of phylogenetics with genome data, has emerged as a powerful approach to study the evolution and systematics of species. Recently, several studies employing phylogenomic tools have provided better insights into insect evolution. Next-generation sequencing methods are now increasingly used by entomologists to generate genomic and transcript sequences of various insect species and strains. These data provide opportunities for comparative genomics and large-scale multigene phylogenies of diverse lineages of insects. Phy-logenomic investigations help us to better understand systematic and evolutionary relationships of insect species that play important roles as herbivores, predators, detritivores, pollinators and disease vectors. It is important that we critically assess the prospects and limitations of phylogenomic methods. In this review, I describe the current status, outline the major challenges and remark on potential future applications of phylogenomic tools in studying insect systematics and evolution.
系统发育基因组学，即将系统发育学与基因组数据相结合，已成为研究物种进化和系统分类的一种强大方法。最近，几项采用系统发育基因组学工具的研究为昆虫进化提供了更深入的见解。昆虫学家现在越来越多地使用新一代测序方法来生成各种昆虫物种和品系的基因组和转录本序列。这些数据为昆虫不同谱系的比较基因组学和大规模多基因系统发育研究提供了机会。系统发育基因组学研究有助于我们更好地理解作为食草动物、捕食者、食腐动物、传粉者和疾病传播媒介发挥重要作用的昆虫物种的系统发育和进化关系。我们批判性地评估系统发育基因组学方法的前景和局限性很重要。在这篇综述中，我描述了当前的现状，概述了主要挑战，并对系统发育基因组学工具在研究昆虫系统分类学和进化方面潜在的未来应用发表了评论。
