1KITE: 1,000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution

Insects are one of the most species-rich groups of metazoan organisms. They play a pivotal role in most non-marine ecosystems and many insect species are of enormous economical and medical importance. Unraveling the evolution of insects is essential for understanding how life in terrestrial and limnic environments evolved. The 1KITE (1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project aims to study the transcriptomes (that is the entirety of expressed genes) of more than 1,000 insect species encompassing all recognized insect orders.

Release at 2014-11-07

Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R. S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., ... & Zhou, X. (2014). Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science, 346(6210), 763-767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570