Figure 1. A diverse group of insect orders was chosen for a phylogenetic analysis of insect transferrins.

The tree shown is based on the phylogeny described by Misof et al. (2014) with a modification to include termites in the order Blattodea (Inward et al. 2007; Harrison et al. 2018). (Branch lengths do not represent evolutionary time.) The 18 orders represented in our phylogenetic analysis are in red text. The three non-insect hexapod orders are shown above the dashed line. The species included in our analyses are listed on the right.