Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics

Abstract Background The most species-rich radiation of animal life in the 66 million years following the Cretaceous extinction event is that of schizophoran flies: a third of fly diversity including Drosophila fruit fly model organisms, house flies, forensic blow flies, agricultural pest flies, and...

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Main Authors: Keith M. Bayless, Michelle D. Trautwein, Karen Meusemann, Seunggwan Shin, Malte Petersen, Alexander Donath, Lars Podsiadlowski, Christoph Mayer, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Rudolf Meier, Sujatha Narayanan Kutty, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Bernhard Misof, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:BMC Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00944-8