… of body size evolution in this ancient insect order. Our combined results suggest consistent
directional selection (for these fitness components, at least) toward larger adult body size in …

… Global interspecific body size distributions have been … of global latitudinal size gradients in
an old insect order. … Our results suggest that odonate taxa evolve large sizes at lower latitudes…

… Our research background and expertise is in the insect order … Odonata is a relatively
small insect order that currently … All of our size measurements are given in millimetres (mm), …

… To test whether the observed abundance patterns of specific TEs are driven by shared ancient
… We also find evidence of shared ancient bursts of SINE activity in cocoon- and tube case–…

… Older orders tended to have lower rates of evolution of new species, ie, a negative slope of
… a wide range of body sizes is not necessary for an insect order to evolve a large number of …

… body size variation across families of Hexapoda (insects and … link between size and diversity
within this ancient and highly … may further skew size distributions across the order [56]. Thus…

… large body size in cold areas. Our results furthermore support the idea that body sizes of
terrestrial and aquatic insects … This result was consistent for both insect orders studied. However, …

… However, despite the greatly increased size of phylogenomic datasets, contentious … addressing
ancient radiations and outline possible approaches toward tackling tricky nodes in insect …

… There is little evidence that insect body size influences net … As in the previous review, I
include comparative studies of … Arthropods and three of the richest insect orders are labelled. …

… -order taxa to which the species belong regarding body size and sexual size dimorphism,
we collected data on body length of a large … from 1.0 when the former value is not included …