Tribolium beetles as a model system in evolution and ecology.
Journal
Heredity
ISSN: 1365-2540
Titre abrégé: Heredity (Edinb)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0373007
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2021
06 2021
Historique:
received:
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10
2020
accepted:
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02
2021
revised:
19
02
2021
pubmed:
27
3
2021
medline:
26
10
2021
entrez:
26
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Flour beetles of the genus Tribolium have been utilised as informative study systems for over a century and contributed to major advances across many fields. This review serves to highlight the significant historical contribution that Tribolium study systems have made to the fields of ecology and evolution, and to promote their use as contemporary research models. We review the broad range of studies employing Tribolium to make significant advances in ecology and evolution. We show that research using Tribolium beetles has contributed a substantial amount to evolutionary and ecological understanding, especially in the fields of population dynamics, reproduction and sexual selection, population and quantitative genetics, and behaviour, physiology and life history. We propose a number of future research opportunities using Tribolium, with particular focus on how their amenability to forward and reverse genetic manipulation may provide a valuable complement to other insect models.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33767370
doi: 10.1038/s41437-021-00420-1
pii: 10.1038/s41437-021-00420-1
pmc: PMC8178323
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
869-883Subventions
Organisme : Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
ID : BB/N011759/1
Pays : United Kingdom
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