Estimating global biodiversity: the role of cryptic insect species

X Li, JJ Wiens - Systematic Biology, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
How many species are there on Earth and to what groups do these species belong? These
fundamental questions span systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Yet, recent …

Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats

TH Lavery, DA DeRaad, PS Holland, KV Olson… - …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Body size is a key morphological attribute, often used to delimit species boundaries among
closely related taxa. But body size can evolve in parallel, reaching similar final states despite …

Too hard to swallow: a secret secondary defence of an aposematic insect

LY Wang, WS Huang, HC Tang… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - journals.biologists.com
Anti-predator strategies are significant components of adaptation in prey species.
Aposematic prey are expected to possess effective defences that have evolved …

Conservation genomics of federally endangered Texella harvester species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangodidae) from cave and karst habitats of central Texas

S Derkarabetian, P Paquin, J Reddell, M Hedin - Conservation Genetics, 2022‏ - Springer
Genomic-scale data for non-model taxa are providing new insights into landscape genomic
structuring and species limits, leading to more informed conservation decisions, particularly …

An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss

AA Hoffmann, VL White, M Jasper, H Yagui… - Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conservation research is dominated by vertebrate examples but the shorter generation
times and high local population sizes of invertebrates may lead to very different …

Rafting on floating fruit is effective for oceanic dispersal of flightless weevils

HY Yeh, HY Tseng, CP Lin, CP Liao… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - journals.biologists.com
Terrestrial species, especially non-vagile ones (those unable to fly or swim), cannot cross
oceans without exploiting other animals or floating objects. However, the colonisation history …

Complex inter‐island colonization and peripatric founder speciation promote diversification of flightless Pachyrhynchus weevils in the Taiwan–Luzon volcanic belt

HY Tseng, WS Huang, ML Jeng… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigated the spatial and temporal patterns of diversification among colourful and
flightless weevils, the Pachyrhynchus orbifer complex, to test the step**‐stone hypothesis …

Revisiting museum collections in the genomic era: potential of MIG-seq for retrieving phylogenetic information from aged minute dry specimens of ants (Hymenoptera …

K Eguchi, E Oguri, T Sasaki, A Matsuo… - Myrmecological …, 2020‏ - biotaxa.org
Multiplexed inter-simple sequence repeat genoty** by sequencing–MIG-seq–is an
effective PCR-based method for genome-wide SNP detection using the Next-Generation …

Genomic data revealed inbreeding despite a geographically connected stable effective population size since the Holocene in the protected Formosan Long-Arm …

JP Huang, SP Wu, WY Chen, GJ Pham… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity conservation is a top priority in the face of global environmental change, and the
practical restoration of biodiversity has emerged as a key objective. Nevertheless, the …

How the Easter Egg Weevils Got Their Spots: Phylogenomics Reveals Müllerian Mimicry in Pachyrhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae).

MH Van Dam, A Anzano Cabras, AW Lam - Systematic Biology, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The evolutionary origins of mimicry in the Easter egg weevil, Pachyrhynchus, have
fascinated researchers since first noted more than a century ago by Alfred Russel Wallace …