Resources for Week 2, January 26, 28, 30

Arthropod Phylogeny

REQUIRED READING
Grimaldi & Engel, Chapter 3, pp 93-111.

Tree of Life Arthropod pages - (view the site for pictures and information on arthropods).


Hexapod Phylogeny — the Entognatha, Insecta, and the "Apterygota"

REQUIRED READING
Grimaldi & Engel, Chapter 3, pp 111-118; Chapter 4; Chapter 5.


Tree of Life Hexapod pages.

Engel, M.S., and D.A. Grimaldi. 2004. New light shed on the oldest insect. Nature 427: 627-630. (requires password to access).


FYI
Kristensen, N.P. 1991. Phylogeny of extant hexapod. Insects of Australia, 2nd ed., vol. 2. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. (requires password to access).

Kjer, K.M. 2004. Aligned 18S and insect phylogeny. Systematic Biology 53: 506-514. (requires password to access).

Order Overviews (Diagram of "apterygote" characters and list of taxa for !!! 1st identification exam !!!).

Collembola

Tree of Life Collembola pages
Frans Janssens Collembola.org (this is a comprehensive site with excellent information and photographs of Collembola)
Steve Hopkin's home page (another excellent page, see especially his article on The Biology of the Collembola: the Most Abundant Insects in the World).
Protura
Tree of Life Protura pages
Ecowatch Protura pages (nice line drawings of Protura. See also the Ecowatch pages on Collembola and Diplura as well as the Archaeognatha and Thysanura, sensu stricto . This is a nice site for insect images and information in general. You may find it useful throughout the course.)

Diplura

Tree of Life Diplura pages
Archaeognatha
Tree of Life Archaeognatha pages
Zygentoma (=Thysanura, sensu stricto)
Tree of life Thysanura, sensu stricto, pages