Heteroptera: Biodiversity, Evolution, Taxonomy and Conservation

Dear Colleagues,

The diversity of life in Heteroptera is amazing. They are part of the most successful group of non-holometabolic insects. The relationship between Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha is more advanced and improving, but any progress within Enicocephalomorpha and Dipsocoromorpha is lagging behind. Integrative taxonomy and molecular systematics have contributed dramatically to speed up the generation and testing of hypotheses. Given the fascinating natural history of Heteropterans and their status as model organisms for evolutionary studies, the integration of different areas such as cladistics, analyzed in a broader biogeographic and evolutionary context, deserves increased attention. For this reason, we are accepting review articles as well as primary research articles that include original data and high-quality analysis on taxonomy, morphology, ecology and molecular biology as well as omics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics) covering organisms from all Heteroptera infraorders. This Special Issue aims to provide a basic resource for researchers who are interested in the systematic knowledge of biodiversity in Heteroptera, whether at the level of a specific group or at the level of families, contributing to their evolution, as well as the knowledge of biodiversity and conservation.

This Special Issue aims to address the important gap in knowledge associated with the biological, systematic, taxonomic and evolutionary processes related to Heteroptera. Our goal is to compile and publish scientific articles from prominent research groups in this Special Issue to help broaden our understanding on issues related to diversity and biodiversity.

We welcome authors to submit a wide range of manuscripts that model groups present in Heteroptera. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Phylogenetics, phylogenomics and systematics of groups present in Heteroptera;
• Evolutionary ecology, including studies related to the speciation and hybridization of groups present in Heteroptera;
• Evolutionary and population genetics of groups present in Heteroptera;
• Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics of insect vectors;
• Taxonomy assignments and review of groups present in Heteroptera.

Dr. Jader de Oliveira
Dr. Hélcio Reinaldo Gil-Santana
Guest Editors

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