Chao-Dong(朝东) Zhu(朱)

Chao-Dong(朝东) Zhu(朱)
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  • Ph.D., Prof.
  • Professor (Full) at Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. Thinking about state-of-art systematics on insects 2. Pollinator diversity and food supplies

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Introduction
Currently, I have been mainly interested in integrative approaches on systematics. I mainly sample parasitoid wasps and pollinator bees to study evolutionary biology and species interactions. For more information on my research group, please visit http://english.anisys.ioz.ac.cn/groups/zhuchaodong/PI/ If you are interested in visiting us for a position , please refer to http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/index.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi
Current institution
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Current position
  • Professor (Full)
Additional affiliations
May 2006 - present
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Position
  • Principal Investigator
December 2020 - present
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Position
  • Chair
Description
  • Science planning; Capacity building
December 2017 - December 2020
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Position
  • Chair
Description
  • Science; capacity building of young staff
Education
September 1996 - July 1999
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Field of study
  • Zoology
September 1993 - July 1996
Department of Biology, Nanjing Normal University
Field of study
  • Zoology
September 1989 - July 1993
Department of Biology, Nanjing Normal University
Field of study
  • Biology

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Publications (457)
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Public DNA databases are composed of data from many different taxa, although the taxonomic annotation on sequences is not always complete, which impedes the utilization of mined data for species-level applications. There is much ongoing work on species identification and delineation based on the molecular data itself, although applying species clus...
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Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for species delimitation. Among the most widely used methods, the generalized mixed Yule-coalescent (GMYC) and Poisson tree processes (PTP) were designed for the analysis of single-...
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Disentangling phylogenetic relationships proves challenging for groups that have evolved recently, especially if there is ongoing reticulation. Although they are in most cases immediately isolated from diploid relatives, sets of sibling allopolyploids often hybridize with each other, thereby increasing the complexity of an already challenging situa...
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Declining plant diversity alters ecological networks, such as plant‐herbivore interactions. However, our knowledge of the potential mechanisms underlying effects of plant species loss on plant‐herbivore network structure is still limited. We used DNA‐barcoding to identify herbivore‐host plant associations along declining levels of tree diversity in...
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The mechanisms driving species co‐occurrence are varied and include biotic interactions, abiotic factors, and scale‐dependent processes. Based on a comprehensive dataset of lepidopteran herbivores recorded from a large‐scale forest biodiversity experiment, we tested the contribution to herbivore species co‐occurrence of herbivore phylogenetic relat...
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Parotis Hübner, 1831 is a genus within the family Crambidae, which is recognized as one of the most diverse families of Lepidoptera. Species within the genus Parotis can be readily distinguished from other closely related genera by their distinctive green or yellow-green body coloration. However, the genus Parotis has received relatively limited re...
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The type specimens of Anthophorinae described by Yan-Ru Wu in the Beijing Institute of the Zoological Museum of the Chinese National Animal Collection Resource Center are reviewed. Primary types of 47 taxa are illustrated, and detailed information on each taxon is provided. New synonymies are also established for Amegilla (Glossamegilla) himalajens...
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Passerine birds are among the most diverse and species-rich groups of vertebrates, but the timescale of their evolution has been difficult to resolve with confidence. The fossil record of early passerines is relatively sparse and molecular-clock estimates of the passerine crown age have varied widely, with most previous studies relying on external...
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Montiscola Mi & Cheng gen. nov., a new alpine genus of the tribe Gnophini with brachypterous females, is described from the Kongtanglam Mountain, Jilong, Xizang (Tibet), China, with the support of molecular and morphological evidences, together with its type species Montiscola hongfui Mi & Cheng sp. nov. Morphological characters, including those of...
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Tree species richness affects biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Investigating its effect on soil animals and their trophic ecology is crucial for understanding soil food web functioning. Despite this, the relationship between tree species richness and soil microarthropods trophic structure has rarely been evaluated. Here, we investigated the...
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Ourapteryx is widely distributed in the Palearctic and Oriental regions, with the highest species diversity found in China. As of 2024, 95 described species have been recorded globally; however, no comprehensive revision of this genus has been published. Identifying Ourapteryx species based solely on wing patterns is challenging due to their extrem...
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant species richness, overall community phylogenetic and functional composition of consumers, a...
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant species richness, overall community phylogenetic and functional composition of consumers, a...
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Abstract [Objectives] To investigate the main of pollinators of Camellia oleifera, a woody plant endemic to China that has a high edible oil content and medicinal value, differences in pollinator communities in different regions, and provide information useful for the conservation and utilization of pollinators. [Methods] Pollinators of C. oleifera...
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Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) represent one of the greatest examples of herbivore diversification, though they currently lack a comprehensively sampled synthesis phylogeny. This hinders various applications such as phylogenetic profiling of insect DNA for biomonitoring. We herein constructed a phylogeny of Lepidoptera integrating information...
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Megachile sculpturalis Smith, 1853 native to East Asia, is an important solitary bee species that has invaded both Europe and the United States. This study provides the first chromosome-level genome assembly of M. sculpturalis using a combination of Nanopore long reads, Illumina short reads, and Hi-C data. The genome comprises 296.99 Mb distributed...
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Aim Rapid loss in global insect diversity has generated substantial public worry due to their critical ecological roles. However, there is controversy about the effectiveness of the global‐scale hotspots in guiding the conservation of diversity at the regional scale. Even worse, little is known about the knowledge of insect distributional dynamics...
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The choice of trap in entomological surveys affects the composition of captured insects, though previous comparative studies have been limited in the types of composition measured, and the effects of environmental context. We assessed the sampling bias of several traps commonly used in pollinator monitoring: blue, yellow, and white pan traps, and b...
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Ecological disturbance can promote or reduce community biodiversity depending on its severity. Beekeeping activities represent a type of ecological disturbance when large numbers of honey bees are introduced to a landscape and interact with the local plant and pollinator community. In this study, we characterized the effect of immediate and long-te...
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Megachile is one of the largest bee genera, including nearly 1,500 species, but very few chromosome-level assemblies exist for this group or the family Megachilidae. Here, we report the chromosome-level genome assembly of Megachile lagopoda collected from Xizang, China. Using PacBio CLR long reads and Hi-C data, we assembled a genome of 256.83 Mb w...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Parotis chlorochroalis was sequenced, revaeling a length of 15239 bp with 37 genes and an A + T-rich region. All c13 PCGs begin with typical ATN codons, except COI gene, which starts with CGA. Eleven genes terminate with TAA, two with T–. All 22 tRNA genes exhibit typical cloverleaf structure except for trnS...
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A new species of bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica Orr & Zhu, sp. nov., is described from China. The systematic placement of this species was initially challenging but was resolved using a combination of phylogenomic and COI barcode analyses, which strongly support the new species as a member of the genus Tetraloni...
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Integrative taxonomy of a new species of a bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae), investigated through phylogenomics. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97: 755-780. https://doi. Abstract A new species of bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica Orr & Zhu, sp. nov....
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Ecosystem functioning depends on biodiversity at multiple trophic levels, yet relationships between multitrophic diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality have been poorly explored, with studies often focusing on individual trophic levels and functions and on specific ecosystem types. Here, we show that plant diversity can affect ecosystem functio...
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant diversity, tree identity, genetic diversity, overall community composition of higher trophi...
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant diversity, tree identity, genetic diversity, overall community composition of higher trophi...
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Bumblebees are important pollinators for many natural and agricultural systems in temperate regions. Interspecific and intraspecific variation in floral resource preferences have been proposed to influence bumblebee community structure. In particular, sexual dimorphism is a major source of intraspecific niche variation. Although interspecific resou...
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant diversity, tree identity, genetic diversity, overall community composition of higher trophi...
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Background The field of bee genomics has considerably advanced in recent years, however, the most diverse group of honey producers on the planet, the stingless bees, are still largely neglected. In fact, only eleven of the ~ 600 described stingless bee species have been sequenced, and only three using a long-read (LR) sequencing technology. Here, w...
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Simple Summary Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps) are one of the most numerically, structurally, and biologically diverse groups in Hymenoptera. However, the conserved morphology coupled with a high intraspecific variability in certain key characters hinders research on chalcids. In this study, DNA barcoding with the COI gene was used to calibrate intra-...
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Pollinators provide important pollination services for crops around the world. In China, numerous studies have been conducted on pollinators within agroecosystems, yet a comprehensive review of such research remains to be completed. This study discusses the existing knowledge of pollinator diversity in Chinese agroecosystems, examines the provision...
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Eleven new species of Ourapteryx Leach, 1814 were described: O. curta Jiang & Han, sp. nov., O. triangulata Cheng & Han, sp. nov., O. cawarongensis Cheng & Jiang, sp. nov., O. arcuata Jiang & Cheng, sp. nov., O. longiacutata Jiang & Cheng, sp. nov., O. linzhiensis Jiang & Cheng, sp. nov., O. aniqiaoensis Cheng & Zhu, sp. nov., O. incurvata Cheng &...
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The two genera, Chaenotetrastichus Graham and Styotrichia LaSalle (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae), are newly recorded from the Oriental region, based on material reared from the pupae of Auplopus carbonarius (Scopoli) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) and a Pisoxylon species (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), respectively, collected using trap-nests. S...
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As an important forestry pest, Coronaproctus castanopsis (Monophlebidae) has caused serious damage to the globally valuable Gutianshan ecosystem, China. In this study, we assembled the first chromosome-level genome of the female specimen of C. castanopsis by merging BGI reads, HiFi long reads and Hi-C data. The assembled genome size is 700.81 Mb, w...
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Biotic exchanges between Taiwan and Mainland China have shaped the biodiversity and ecosystems of both regions. Exchanges from Mainland China to Taiwan have received more attention, mainly studied in terrestrial vertebrates, while the reverse direction and invertebrates have largely been overlooked. Here, we explore the dispersal events between the...
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How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 billion when considering cryptic diversity and that each morphology-based insect species may contain an average of 3.1 cryptic species. With nearly two million described species...
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Background The field of bee genomics has been considerably advanced in recent years, however, the most diverse group of honey producers on the planet, the stingless bees (SLBs), are still largely neglected. In fact, only ten of the ~600 described SLB species have been sequenced, and only one using a long-read (LR) sequencing technology. Here, we se...
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Globally, insect pollinators that are linked to increased yields in many crops have experienced severe population declines. Crop diversification is often proposed as an effective conservation measure to boost pollinator populations. Here, we investigate the potential benefits of mixed oilseed rape/milk vetch cultivation for wild pollinator communit...
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There are many factors known to drive species turnover, although the mechanisms by which these operate are less clear. Based on comprehensive datasets from the largest tree diversity experiment worldwide (BEF-China), we used shared herbivore species (zeta diversity) and multi-site generalized dissimilarity modelling to investigate the patterns and...
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Wild bees play crucial roles in pollinating numerous crops and fruits worldwide. However, these essential insect pollinators are threatened with decline due to a variety of stressors. Among stressors, relatively little work has been done on metalloid pollution. Laboratory experiments have shown that arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) can negatively imp...
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Tree species richness, forest structure, and seasonal fluctuations between rainy and dry seasons can strongly affect trophic interactions in forest ecosystems, but the inter- and scale dependence of these variables remains unclear. Using artificial caterpillars (~18,000 replicates), we analyzed predation pressure by arthropods, birds, and rodents a...
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The challenges of bee research in Asia are unique and severe, reflecting different cultures, landscapes, and faunas. Strategies and frameworks developed in North America or Europe may not prove applicable. Virtually none of these species have been assessed by the IUCN and there is a paucity of public data on even the basics of bee distribution. If...
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One new species of the genus Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858, Conostigmus xui Cui and Wang sp. nov., from China is described. A key to the known species of Conostigmus from China is provided.
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Wild bees provide important pollination services, but they face numerous stressors that threaten them and their ecosystem services. Wild bees can be exposed to heavy metal pollution through the consumption of nectar, pollen, and water, which might cause bee decline. While some studies have measured heavy metal concentrations in honeybees, few stu...
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Guedes and colleagues’ call to eliminate taxonomic eponyms stems from intense ongoing debates. The International Code on Zoological Nomenclature Commission has categorically stated that it will not do this; doing so would eliminate the stability that the code provides and would sow chaos at a time when scientists must work together to mitigate the...
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The Holy Grail of an Insect Tree of Life can only be 'discovered' through extensive collaboration among taxon specialists, phylogeneticists and centralized frameworks such as Open Tree of Life, but insufficient effort from stakeholders has so far hampered this promising approach. The resultant unavailability of synthesis phylogenies is an unfortuna...
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Despite the urgent need for conservation consideration, strategic action plans for the preservation of the Asian honeybee, Apis cerana Fabricius, 1793, remain lacking. Both the convergent and divergent adaptations of this widespread insect have led to confusing phenotypical traits and inconsistent infraspecific taxonomy. Unclear subspecies boundari...
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Chalcidoidea is one of the most biologically diverse groups among Hymenoptera. Members are characterized by extraordinary parasitic lifestyles and extensive host ranges, among which several species attack plants or serve as pollinators. However, higher-level chalcidoid relationships remain controversial. Here, we performed mitochondrial phylogenomi...
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The full potential for using DNA barcodes for profiling functional trait diversity has yet to be determined in plants and animals; thus, we outline a general framework for quantifying functional trait diversity of insect community DNA and propose and assess the accuracy of three methods for achieving this. We built a novel dataset of traits and DNA...
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Andrena camellia, an effective pollinator of the economicallysignificant crop Camellia oleifera, can withstand the toxic pollen of C. oleifera, making A. camellia a crucial for resource conservation and cultivation of C. oleifera. In this study, the whole genome of A. camellia was sequenced on the Oxford Nanopore platform. The assembled genome size...
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There are many factors known to drive species turnover although the mechanisms by which these operate are less clear. Based on comprehensive datasets we used zeta diversity and multi-site generalized dissimilarity modelling to investigate the pattern and determinants of species turnover for Lepidoptera herbivores. We found that the average number o...
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Forests sustain 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. Biodiversity experiments have demonstrated that plant diversity correlates with both primary productivity and higher trophic diversity. However, whether higher trophic diversity can mediate the effects of plant diversity on productivity remains unclear. Here,...
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Phylogenomics is a new field that infers evolutionary relationships of taxa at the genome-scale level. The increment of molecular data may raise the potential bias as the limiting factor in phylogenomics. It is particularly important to explore these factors in phylogenomic analyses by simple, convenient, time-saving and (relatively) robust means....
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Gaining knowledge on bees is of the utmost importance due to the paramount role that they play in angiosperm pollination. Herein, we provide the first genome assembly of Colletes collaris, a pan-Eurasian cellophane bee. We sequenced 50.53 Gbp of long-read data plus 57.36 Gbp of short-read data in Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Illumina platforms,...
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Insects are key pollinators to ecosystem function, but much work remains to determine the most cost-e ective, reliable scheme to monitor them. Pan traps (PT) and flight interception traps (FIT) are two of the most popular insect sampling methods used. However, their relative sampling performance and cost is poorly known for agroecosystems in China....
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Evolutionary timescales can be inferred by molecular-clock analyses of genetic data and fossil evidence. Bayesian phylogenetic methods such as tip dating provide a powerful framework for inferring evolutionary timescales, but the most widely used priors for tree topologies and node times often assume that present-day taxa have been sampled randomly...
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4 个皖南地区典型的农林交错带,2019 年 7 月至 2021 年 4 月,采用人工扫网法收集开花植物上的传粉蜂 类。分析比较了不同植物类型上传粉蜂类的物种多样性和群落结构差异。 【结果】 本研究共采集 4 484 头 传粉蜂类,隶属于 11 科 53 属 118 种,被访植物有农作物、经济作物、观赏植物和野生植物 4 种类型。蜜 蜂科的种类、数量以及所访问植物的种类都极显著高于其他科的蜂类(P < 0.01) 。蜜蜂总科-植物传粉网 络的灭绝曲线系数高于胡蜂总科-植物传粉网络。野生植物上传粉蜂的种类和数量均极显著高于其他的类 型的植物(P < 0.01) 。观赏植物的种类与其所吸引传粉蜂类的 Shannon-Wiener 多样性指数和 Marglaf 丰富 度指数均极显著相关(P < 0...
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Osmia spp.的授粉服务功能在全球农作物生产中发挥着重要的作用,但我们对其授粉效率和 应用过程中的影响因素的基础研究仍然十分有限。 农业景观会影响壁蜂授粉的表现。 在不同的农业景观内, 当地与目标作物同时开花的野生植物、当地传粉昆虫群落、捕食者、拟寄生者和病原体可以增强/削弱壁 蜂的授粉表现及壁蜂蜂茧的回收。我们需要评估从壁蜂引入到对当地农业生态系统的潜在影响。引入的壁 蜂有可能与本土野生蜂物种竞争筑巢栖息地、筑巢材料和食物,并可能通过帮助入侵植物授粉来促进其扩 散。本文综述了利用壁蜂进行授粉存在的潜在问题,并基于四个方面讨论壁蜂应用成本与效益:1)将农 业景观纳入壁蜂授粉应用的评估;2)评估壁蜂对当地生态系统的潜在影响;3)评估壁蜂的授粉价值; 4)对比壁蜂与蜜蜂的授粉效果,旨在指导...
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Insect-associated microorganisms play important roles in the health and development of insects. This study aimed to investigate the similarities and differences in bacterial community structure and composition between the larval gut of Osmia excavata, nest soil, and brood provision from the nest tube. We sequenced larvae gut and their environments’...
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Human-induced biodiversity loss negatively affects ecosystem function, but the interactive effects of biodiversity change across trophic levels remain insufficiently understood. We sampled arboreal spiders and lepidopteran larvae across seasons in 2 years in a subtropical tree diversity experiment, and then disentangled the links between tree diver...
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Simple Summary Parasitoids of the family Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) are difficult to collect and study, in part because of their small body size of 0.2–1.5 mm. Currently, more than 1500 species have been described and recorded. However, molecular data are rarely generated and used in relation to these small parasitoids. The genus Pseudan...
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Global biodiversity decline and its cascading effects through trophic interactions pose a severe threat to human society. Establishing the impacts of biodiversity decline requires a more thorough understanding of multi‐trophic interactions and, more specifically, the effects that loss of diversity in primary producers has on multi‐trophic community...
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Plant diversity has been found to increase herbivore diversity, including abundance, species richness and phylogenetic diversity. However, it is yet to be established at which spatial scale these effects are strongest, because host finding and community assembly may be shaped by host diversity both in local habitat patches and at larger scales. Usi...
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Species are fundamental biological units, but their discovery and delimitation requires appropriate data and methods. To better circumscribe species, we must improve our species concepts and bolster the underlying data resources necessary to enact them. Here, we provide six prescriptions for better collecting and synergizing our knowledge on specie...
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Species are fundamental biological units, but their discovery and delimitation requires appropriate data and methods. To better circumscribe species, we must improve our species concepts and bolster the underlying data resources necessary to enact them. Here, we provide six prescriptions for better collecting and synergizing our knowledge on specie...
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Simple Summary The nutritional content of food plants can, to a large extent, determine the physical attributes of herbivorous insects, from growth rates to the need for defenses against predators. In forests, tree species richness may influence these plant-mediated effects through increasing variation in the nutritional quality that herbivorous in...
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This paper reviews current progresses on insect diversity monitoring in China and gives a brief introduction to the planning and progress of the Insect Diversity Monitoring Network, China (Sino BON–Insects). Because insects play a key role in ecosystem processes it is important to monitor their diversity over the long term. Different monitoring tec...
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Background & Aims: We reviewed progress on insect biodiversity research over the past 30 years and further analyzed the trends, focusing on varied study sys tems (e.g. forest, grassland and agriculture etc.) and important functional insect groups, such as pollinators, herbivores and predators. Progresses: Declines of insect abundance and diversity...
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Background & Aim: Analyzing biodiversity status requires multi-spatial scale, continuous monitoring across different ecosystems due to its heterogenous nature in both space and time. Therefore, monitoring networks are necessary for biodiversity conservation research. Biodiversity monitoring networks at the global, regional, and national scales,
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BEF-China)新岗山样地 5 年的长期定点监测和实验样本积累,我们发现了独栖 蜂的主要类群和发生规律。巢管法共获得 129 个物种,隶属于 3 目 25 科。其中传粉者占全部独栖蜂的 26.6%,共 2 科 12 种,主要为分舌蜂和切叶蜂;捕食者约占全部独栖蜂的 73.4%,有 4 科 44 种,以蜾蠃、 蛛蜂、泥蜂和方头泥蜂为主;独栖蜂寄生者有 19 科 73 种,主要类群是麻蝇、蜂虻、青蜂、钩腹蜂和姬 小蜂。独栖蜂物种组成中传粉者多样性显著低于捕食者。同时独栖蜂中普遍存在着雌雄羽化异律现象, 即雄性先羽化,并在越冬个体中更明显。切叶蜂科和方头泥蜂科的发生时间比以蜾蠃亚科和蛛蜂科的发 生时间更集中。此外,通过构建独栖蜂和寄生者的互作网络,我们发现寄生者多度和多样性受较低营养 级寄主的...
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Aim: The aim of this study is to catalogue and summarize new taxa of the order Hymenoptera published in 2021. Methods: In 2021, 355 journal publications on new taxa in the order Hymenoptera were obtained and analyzed by researching the available zoological databases. Results: Based on the collected journal publications, there were 1,152 records on...
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This study is dedicated to the late Dr. John LaSalle, and reviews the world species of Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae); fourteen species are treated, of which two are newly described: P. dactylispae Cao & Zhu sp. nov. from China and P. peukscutella Cao & Zhu sp. nov. from Malaysia. On the basis of morphological characters, tentat...
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Despite recent advances in phylogenomics, the early evolution of the largest bee family, Apidae, remains uncertain, hindering efforts to understand the history of Apidae and establish a robust comparative framework. Confirming the position of Anthophorinae—a diverse, globally distributed lineage of apid bees—has been particularly problematic, with...
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Despite recent advances in phylogenomics, the early evolution of the largest bee family, Apidae, remains uncertain, hindering efforts to understand the history of Apidae and establish a robust comparative framework. Confirming the position of Anthophorinae—a diverse, globally distributed lineage of apid bees—has been particularly problematic, with...
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The microbiomes associated with bee nests influence colony health through various mechanisms, although it is not yet clear how honeybee congeners differ in microbiome assembly processes, in particular the degrees to which floral visitations and the environment contribute to different aspects of diversity. We used DNA metabarcoding to sequence bacte...
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This 10-min talk covers major challenges, innovative approaches, new efforts and potential collaborations in studying on bee diversity and pollinations services between scientists from both China and U.S.A.
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EDITORIAL Positioning taxonomic research for the future Why do taxonomists matter? The work of taxonomists is often understated if not completely misunderstood. Without taxonomists, organisms cannot be accurately identified, neither can these organisms be given universally accepted names, and reliably positioned in the phylogenetic tree of life. Th...
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The stalk-eyed fruit flies, with their eyes borne at the ends of long stalks, are distinctly different from all other members of the family Tephritidae (Diptera). They resemble stalk-eyed flies (Diptera, Diopsidae) but they are much larger and their antennae are located in the middle of the head instead of on the eye stalks. The stalk-eyed fruit fl...
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Taxonomy plays an important role in understanding the origin, evolution, and ecological functionality of biodiversity. There are large number of unknown species yet to be described by taxonomists, which together with their ecosystem services cannot be effectively protected prior to description. Despite this, taxonomy has been increasingly underrat...
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Dear colleagues,
I'm asking if there are any convenient detectors in monitoring and recording flying bee movement.
Thanks,
cd
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There are several practical ways to sample arthropods from canopy, which include Spray pesticides, canopy malaise traps, SLAM traps, beating trees. My lab raised more interests into sampling arthropods from individual tall trees.
Currently, beating is fine with those shorter than 10 meters. However, trees are growing fast to reach around 20 meters, which will be a big challenge for us to sample in a traditional way. Spray pesticides have been efficient to collect large amount of samples from a single tree. But it does have negative impacts. Both canopy malaise traps and SLAM traps collect samples from around a tree, not really specifically from the main target tree.
So, are there any other practical approach do you have to sample canopy arthropods specifically from a single tall tree, which might be 20-60 meters?
Thanks in advance.
cd
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I'm planning a field trip to sample some insects potential for genome sequencing. Some sampling places might be over 1000 km away from the lab. 
For each population/morphotype, with body size varying between 5-20 mm, how many individuals are enough for DNA extraction? Any suggestions to store insects in the field and transport them back to the lab? Should I take nitrogen equipments? Or are there any other more easy options?
I do appreciate your valuable comments and inputs. 
Best,
cd
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When we set up pan traps, we normally use water to catch insects. However, if we want to use alcohol to preserve both specimens and DNA, we need to prevent alcohol from evaporation. 
What liquid is not dissolved in both water and alcohol? We want to use it to cover alcohol and prevent alcohol from evaporation in open bowl trap for insects.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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Purposes:
1. Take the picture of an insect from the ARP system;
2. Compare this picture with those in a image database;
3. Provide relevant results if the image is similar to some insect images; 
4. Collect GPS data while confirm some interesting insect groups; 
5. Automatic raise the question on the taxonomy informations if the previous image was possibly wrongly identified.
6. Share the image with taxonomy if the author would like to do it for other public media.
I wrote a blog in Chinese asking the same question below - 
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These days, I have been thinking about speciation and diversification. If we make the most simple assumption as below, we come to the one species model. The questions could be below -
1. If there is only 1 species with only 1 gene, how does this species evolve? Can we illustrate the species evolutionary history with mathematics?
2. If there are m species, with n genes for each one, how does the species diversity evolve? There are no interactions between species/genes. Can we illustrate the species diversity evolve with mathematics?
Without answers to the 1st, we can not go to the 2nd for more than 2 species/genes. 
I do appreciate if you would kindly offer some references or clues. 
Best,
cd
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Joel Cracraft listed 7 big questions of systematic biology (ANN. MISSOURI BOT. GARD. 89: 127–144. 2002.). 
1. Wat is a species?
2. How many species are there?
3. What is the tree of life?
4. What has been the history of character transformation?
5. Where are earth's species distributed?
6. How have species distributions changed over time?
7. How is phylogenetic history predictive?
In the great era of new technology and large data including omics, the integrative approach might help to solve some more questions.
What big questions of systematic biology are in your top list of challenge? Any inputs with some references are warmly welcome.
Systematic Biology Forum, China
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I'm invited to write a short piece on bee navigation. Amazed by Nature news published on 2014/06/02 (http://www.nature.com/news/bees-build-mental-maps-to-get-home-1.15333) several times, I wonder if wild solitary bees also have similar capability to build the cognitive map and go back to their nests. Although social and solitary bees have similar brain size, they evolved into different life styles.
Besides cognitive map, are there any other hypotheses to explain the bee navigation?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions, comments and valuable inputs.
Best,
cd in Beijing
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We are having demo projects on integrative systematics on bees and wasps in the lab. To gather enough data, we would like to try following technologies of next generation sequencing - 
RADSeq, Restriction-site associated DNA sequencing;
AHE, Anchored Hybrid Enrichment;
GBS, Genotyping-by-Sequencing;
UCE, Ultraconserved Elements.
Any comments or suggestions? 
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We recently did metabarcoding of samples from Malaise Traps. But, the primers worked not so well. We got loads of data. However, we could not pair-wise align short reads from both ends of the COI barcode. 
Any suggestions on the primers for Hymenoptera or Insecta?
Thanks, cd
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With supports from both China Entomological Society and Beijing Entomological Society, we organized the 1st working group meeting under the Special Committee on Pollinator Insects (June 28-29, 2016). All participants agreed to welcome the 1st Symposium on Pollinator Insects in 2017. We would like to host the symposium each year and invite speakers from all over the world. If you are interested in this symposium to be member of advisory panel,  give talks or organize training courses, please kindly contact me at zhucd@ioz.ac.cn. We do appreciate your comments and suggestions.
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Chao-Dong ZHU
Ph.D., Prof., Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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