Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Margy Alejandra Esparza Mora and Shixiong Jiang
for their assistance in caring for and providing the termite and
cockroach species as well as Katharina Meyer zu Riemsloh for help in
curating the transcriptome sequences. We further like to thank Sebastian
Schmelzle for providing the insect images. This research was partially
supported by research grants to Daniel A. Friedman (NSF, 20-077 ID
#2010290), Dino P. McMahon (DFG, MC 436/5-1) and Jan Buellesbach (DFG,
BU3439/1-1).