Hosts and their symbionts are involved in intimate physiological and ecological interactions.
The impact of these interactions on the evolution of each partner depends on the time‐scale …

After almost 50 years of scrutiny, the ideas that Ehrlich and Raven presented in their
classical paper on the coevolution between butterflies and plants are still very much alive …

Phylogenetic trees in insects are frequently dated by applying a “standard” mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) clock estimated at 2.3% My− 1, but despite its wide use reliable calibration …

Tertiary macrofossils of the flowering plant family Leguminosae (legumes) were used as
time constraints to estimate ages of the earliest branching clades identified in separate …

It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host
plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are typically asynchronous. Recent …

Background Bayesian relaxed-clock dating has significantly influenced our understanding of
the timeline of biotic evolution. This approach requires the use of priors on the branching …

Background This paper describes the theory and implementation of a new software tool,
called Jane, for the study of historical associations. This problem arises in parasitology …

Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease
plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be …

For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of
childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a …

Evolutionary and biological patterns can be obscured by inadequate or ill-defined
terminology. An example is the generally very specific relationship between the sap-feeding …