In hexapods, unlike the majority of animals, development without fertilization is a common
phenomenon. They evolved a striking diversity of unisexual reproductive types that include a …

Androgenesis is a form of quasi-sexual reproduction in which a male is the sole source of
the nuclear genetic material in the embryo. Two types of androgenesis occur in nature …

Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large, tropical, predominantly nocturnal
herbivores, which exhibit extreme masquerade crypsis, whereby they morphologically and …

Phylogenetic utility of two nuclear genes (GBSSI-2 and DHAR) was explored in genus
Fragaria in order to clarify phylogenetic relationships among taxa and to elucidate the origin …

Insects display a staggering diversity of mating and social behaviours. Studying these
systems provides insights into a wide range of evolutionary and behavioural questions, such …

(Leprocaulinus, Macrophasma, and Phobaeticus) and conspecific males being winged.
Ocelli are present only in individuals capable of flight, but are also absent in many winged …

The phasmatodeans or stick and leaf insects are considered to be a mesodiverse insect
order with more than 3000 species reported mainly from the tropics. The stick insect …

Introgressive hybridization can affect the evolution of populations in several important ways.
It may retard or reverse divergence of species, enable the development of novel traits …

Asexual organisms are confronted with substantial drawbacks, both immediate and delayed,
threatening their evolutionary persistence. Yet, genetic associations with asexuality may …

We have used phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (COI and COII genes) and
ecological niche modelling (ENM) to reconstruct the population history of Argosarchus …