Despite intensive research, little is known about the origin of the angiosperms and their rise
to ecological dominance during the Early Cretaceous. Based on whole-genome analyses of …

Contributions from paleobotany, phylogenetics, genomics, developmental biology, and
developmental genetics have yielded tremendous insight into Darwin's “abominable …

The genetics of arthropod resistance have been studied since the early 20th century, when
Harlan (1916) demonstrated that resistance to the leaf blister mite, Eriophyes gossypii …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial
organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several …

We present a large-scale molecular phylogeny of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae),
based on 4.5 kilobases of sequence data from six gene regions extracted from 139 of the …

Plants first colonized the land over 430 million years ago, having evolved from some of the
most primitive forms of life. Since then, plants have played a major role in supplying the …

The taxonomic treatment of trace fossils needs a uniform approach, independent of the
ethologic groups concerned. To this aim, trace fossils are rigorously defined with regard to …

The early Eocene" equable climate problem", ie warm extratropical annual mean and above-
freezing winter temperatures evidenced by proxy records, has remained as one of the great …

Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles) and related families in the superfamily Chrysomeloidea
are important components of forest ecosystems and play a key role in nutrient cycling and …