| microgastrinae (hymenoptera: braconidae) of reunion island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species. | microgastrine wasps (hymenoptera: braconidae) are primary parasitoids of lepidoptera. some of them parasitise major economic pests and have been largely used for biocontrol programs. we revise here the fauna of reunion island: 34 species were recorded, belonging to 13 genera. one genus and 18 species are newly described: dodogaster gen. nov, apanteles minatchy sp. nov., a. pashmina sp. nov., a. romei sp. nov., cotesia xavieri sp. nov., dolichogenidea ashoka sp. nov., d. broadi sp. nov., d. lumba ... | 2013 | 24758826 |
| the highly reduced plastome of mycoheterotrophic sciaphila (triuridaceae) is colinear with its green relatives and is under strong purifying selection. | the enigmatic monocot family triuridaceae provides a potentially useful model system for studying the effects of an ancient loss of photosynthesis on the plant plastid genome, as all of its members are mycoheterotrophic and achlorophyllous. however, few studies have placed the family in a comparative context, and its phylogenetic placement is only partly resolved. it was also unclear whether any taxa in this family have retained a plastid genome. here, we used genome survey sequencing to retriev ... | 2015 | 26170229 |