Department of Integrative Biology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2016 Dec;18:77-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2016.09.007. Epub 2016 Oct 20.
Insect phylogenetics is being profoundly changed by many innovations. Although rapid developments in genomics have center stage, key progress has been made in phenomics, field and museum science, digital databases and pipelines, analytical tools, and the culture of science. The importance of these methodological and cultural changes to the pace of inference of the hexapod Tree of Life is discussed. The innovations have the potential, when synthesized and mobilized in ways as yet unforeseen, to shine light on the million or more clades in insects, and infer their composition with confidence. There are many challenges to overcome before insects can enter the 'phylocognisant age', but because of the promise of genomics, phenomics, and informatics, that is now an imaginable future.
昆虫系统发育学正在被许多创新深刻地改变。尽管基因组学的快速发展占据了中心舞台，但在表型组学、野外和博物馆科学、数字数据库和管道、分析工具以及科学文化方面也取得了重大进展。本文讨论了这些方法和文化变化对六足动物生命之树推断速度的重要性。当这些创新以目前尚未预见的方式综合和调动起来时，它们有可能揭示出昆虫中数以百万计的分支，并自信地推断它们的组成。在昆虫能够进入“系统认知时代”之前，还有许多挑战需要克服，但由于基因组学、表型组学和信息学的前景，这现在是一个可以想象的未来。
