Complete mitochondrial genome of the jet ant Lasius spathepus Wheeler, W.M., 1910 (Formicidae; Hymenoptera) by Jonghyun Park, Jongsun Park

“…It contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs, and a control region in a gene order shared with other species of subfamily Formicinae. The control region is 2,147 bp long, longest of all ants. …”
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Milkweed Assassin Bug (Suggested Common Name) Zelus longipes Linnaeus (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae) by Megha Kalsi, Dakshina R. Seal

“…Members of the genus Zelus belong to the subfamily Harpactorinae and are diurnal in nature. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of a polyphagous insect: Colasposoma dauricum (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) by Mi Shen, Yue Fu, Jiaojun Yu, Jun Fu, Yunli Xiao

“…The phylogenetic relationships between C. dauricum and other 10 species in the superfamily Chrysomeloidea were reconstructed using maximum likelihood (ML) methods based on the concatenated nucleotide sequences, the phylogenetic analysis showed that C. dauricum is closely related to Basilepta fulvipes in the same subfamily.…”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the common pine vole Terricola subterraneus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) by Olga V. Bondareva, Natalia I. Abramson

“…The total length of the mitogenome was 16,398 bp and contained 12S, 16S rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, 13 protein-coding genes, and a 883 bp D-loop in the characteristic arrangement of subfamily Arvicolinae, Rodentia. Overall base composition of the complete mitochondrial DNA is A (33.0%), C (26.5%), G (13.4%), and T (27.0%), respectively. …”
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A new genus and species of Ichneumonini Latreille (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from Oriental Region by Mao-Ling Sheng, Matthias Riedel, Zhong Wang

“… Serratichneumon Riedel & Sheng gen. nov. and Serratichneumon maculatus Sheng & Riedel gen. et sp. nov. belonging to the tribe Ichneumonini of subfamily Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), collected in the Oriental Region (China, Vietnam, and Indonesia), are described and illustrated. …”
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Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotownsendi, a new sand fly from the Miocene amber of Dominican Republic (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) by José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Alda Lima Falcão, Eunice A Bianchi Galati, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil

“…Some species fossils of this subfamily have been recently described and this paper presents the description of a new sand fly Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotownsendi sp. nov in amber. …”
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Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region by Simon van Noort, Matthew Buffington, Mattias Forshage

“…The cynipoid subfamily Figitinae is poorly represented in the Afrotropical region with two genera (Figites Latreille and Xyalophora Kieffer) and six species currently known. …”
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New stiletto flies from New Caledonia (Therevidae, Agapophytinae) by Michael E. Irwin, Shaun L. Winterton, Mark A. Metz

“…Herein we describe two new agapophytine genera (i.e., Jeanchazeauia gen. nov., Calophytus gen. nov.), together comprising nine charismatic new species; this represents a first record of the subfamily from New Caledonia. The new genera and species are described and figured.…”
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Mitochondrial genome analysis of Ectophasia roundiventris (Diptera, Tachinidae) by Xin Li, Shuangmei Ding, Peng Hou, Xiaoyan Liu, Chuntian Zhang, Ding Yang

“…The mitochondrial genome of Ectophasia roundiventris (Loew, 1858), the first representative of subfamily Phasiinae, was sequenced and annotated. So far, there are four Tachinidae mitochondrial genomes, here, all of them are used in Neighbour-Join and Maximum Likelihood analyses. …”
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Indigofera jintongpenensis (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae, Indigofereae), a new species from Yunnan, southwest China by Lan Yao, Yan Yang, Xue-Li Zhao, Qiu-Ping Wang, Huan-Chong Wang

“…Indigofera jintongpenensis, a new species of the subfamily Papilionoideae of Fabaceae, is described and illustrated from Yunnan, southwest China. …”
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Complete mitochondrial genome of Evacanthus heimianus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from China by Jia-Jia Wang, Mao-Fa Yang, Ren-Huai Dai, Hu Li

“…This study enriches the mitogenomes of the Evacanthinae subfamily.…”
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the gate-keeper ant Colobopsis nipponica (Wheeler, W.M., 1928) (Formicidae: Hymenoptera) by Jonghyun Park, Jongsun Park

“…The mitogenome is 17,431 bp long and 19.4% in GC ratio, which is the third longest mitochondrial genome in subfamily Formicinae. It contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes and a large 1534 bp long control region. …”
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Inhibitor scaffolds for 2-oxoglutarate-dependent histone lysine demethylases. by Rose, N, Ng, S, Mecinović, J, Liénard, B, Bello, S, Sun, Z, McDonough, M, Oppermann, U, Schofield, C

“…Here we describe a variety of inhibitor scaffolds that inhibit the human 2-oxoglutarate-dependent JMJD2 subfamily of histone demethylases. Combined with structural data, these chemical starting points will be useful to generate small-molecule probes to analyze the physiological roles of these enzymes in epigenetic signaling.…”

[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]phthalazines: inhibitors of diverse bromodomains. by Fedorov, O, Lingard, H, Wells, C, Monteiro, O, Picaud, S, Keates, T, Yapp, C, Philpott, M, Martin, S, Felletar, I, Marsden, B, Filippakopoulos, P, Müller, S, Knapp, S, Brennan, P

“…This new series of compounds is the first example of submicromolar inhibitors of bromodomains outside the BET subfamily. Representative compounds are active in cells exhibiting potent cellular inhibition activity in a FRAP model of CREBBP and chromatin association. …”

Chromosomal stabilisation by a subtelomeric rearrangement involving two closely related Alu elements. by Flint, J, Rochette, J, Craddock, C, Dodé, C, Vignes, B, Horsley, S, Kearney, L, Buckle, V, Ayyub, H, Higgs, D

“…The broken chromosome has been stabilised with a newly positioned telomere acquired by recombination between this 16p Alu element and a closely related subtelomeric Alu element of the Sx subfamily. It seems most likely that this abnormal chromosome has been rescued by the mechanism of telomere capture which may reflect a more general process by which subtelomeric sequences are normally dispersed between chromosomal ends.…”

Identification and optimization of 4-anilinoquinolines as inhibitors of cyclin G associated kinase by Asquith, C, Laitinen, T, Bennett, J, Godoi, P, East, M, Tizzard, G, Graves, L, Johnson, G, Dornsife, R, Wells, C, Elkins, J, Willson, T, Zuercher, W

“…Optimization of the 4-anilino group and the 6,7-quinoline substituents produced GAK inhibitors with nanomolar activity, over 50 000-fold selectivity relative to other members of the numb-associated kinase (NAK) subfamily, and a compound (6,7-dimethoxy-N-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)quinolin-4-amine; 49) with a narrow-spectrum kinome profile. …”

Additional changes to taxonomy ratified in a special vote by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (October 2018) by Siddell, S, Walker, P, Lefkowitz, E, Mushegian, A, Adams, M, Dutilh, B, Gorbalenya, A, Harrach, B, Harrison, R, Junglen, S, Knowles, N, Kropinski, A, Krupovic, M, Kuhn, J, Nibert, M, Rubino, L, Sabanadzovic, S, Sanfaçon, H, Simmonds, P, Varsani, A, Zerbini, F, Davison, A

“…A total of 15 ranks (realm, subrealm, kingdom, subkingdom, phylum, subphylum, class, subclass, order, suborder, family, subfamily, genus, subgenus, and species) are now available to encompass the entire spectrum of virus diversity. …”

A selective inhibitor and probe of the cellular functions of Jumonji C domain-containing histone demethylases. by Luo, X, Liu, Y, Kubicek, S, Myllyharju, J, Tumber, A, Ng, S, Che, K, Podoll, J, Heightman, T, Oppermann, U, Schreiber, S, Wang, X

“…The inhibitor derives from a structure-based design and preferentially inhibits the subfamily of trimethyl lysine demethylases. Its methyl ester prodrug, methylstat, selectively inhibits Jumonji C domain-containing his-tone demethylases in cells and may be a useful small-molecule probe of chromatin and its role in epigenetics.…”

Molecular Cloning And Functional Characterization Of A Novel Elovl (Elongase) Family From A Freshwater Teleost (Oreochromis Niloticus) by Han, Wan Yin

“…An interest has arisen to investigate whether this group of Elovl proteins could be a new Elovl family member or as a subfamily of the existing Elovl member.…”
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Anchored Phylogenomics, Evolution and Systematics of Elateridae: Are All Bioluminescent Elateroidea Derived Click Beetles? by Hume B. Douglas, Robin Kundrata, Adam J. Brunke, Hermes E. Escalona, Julie T. Chapados, Jackson Eyres, Robin Richter, Karine Savard, Adam Ślipiński, Duane McKenna, Jeremy R. Dettman

“…All analyses recovered the elaterid subfamilies Elaterinae, Agrypninae, Cardiophorinae, Negastriinae, Pityobiinae, and Tetralobinae as monophyletic. …”
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