Origins and structural properties of novel and de novo protein domains during insect evolution

S Klasberg, T Bitard‐Feildel, I Callebaut… - The FEBS …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… disorder-to-order transition upon binding than ancient domains. … The dotted red arrow points
to the node of ancient insect … evolve at a fairly constant rate, genomes are of comparable size

[HTML][HTML] New fossil insect order Permopsocida elucidates major radiation and evolution of suction feeding in hemimetabolous insects (Hexapoda: Acercaria)

DY Huang, G Bechly, P Nel, MS Engel, J Prokop… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… its affinities with the Hemiptera (old name Rhynchota). The … 0.9 mm long, 0.03 mm wide,
metatarsus 0.6 mm long; tibiae … same size and shape; forewing 2.6 mm long, 0.7 mm wide; ScP …

Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany

K Homburg, C Drees, E Boutaud… - Insect Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… The ancient woodland ‘Hofgehölz Möhr’ is about 4 ha in size but is … As our results show
species loss in an ancient habitat type, … In order to understand these patterns and the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of insect metamorphosis

JW Truman - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
… only sees the results when the old outer cuticle is abruptly shed, … Insect orders approximating
different steps in the evolution of … Their small size may have allowed them to exploit niches …

Insect succession on remains of human and animals in Shenzhen, China

Y Wang, M Ma, X Jiang, J Wang, L Li, X Yin… - Forensic science …, 2017 - Elsevier
… is in order of human cadaver > large pig carcasses > small … years old, height of 170 cm,
weighing 49.5 kg, Hm), two largeinsects was not affected by the types of the carcass or its size. …

Why do bugs perish? Range size and local vulnerability traits as surrogates of Odonata extinction risk

M Rocha-Ortega, P Rodríguez… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
insect group in conservation [15] based on geographic range size (GRS) and key traits of local
vulnerability (body size, … Thus, our results concur with previous analyses in other odonate …

Calibrating insect age at eclosion by size in a gregarious carrion beetle Thanatophilus sinuatus (Staphylinidae: Silphinae)

N Lis, W Szyk, A Mądra‐Bielewicz… - Medical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… extremely large or small beetles. Moreover, the total development times recorded in this study
were much shorter than in the previous … In order to obtain eggs, we split our colony into two …

[HTML][HTML] The Swedish Malaise trap project: a 15 year retrospective on a countrywide insect inventory

D Karlsson, E Hartop, M Forshage… - Biodiversity data …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Based on a subset of the samples, we characterise the size … and the burnt residues of the
old trap were replaced by a … for Hymenoptera than for other insect orders in this project. The …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence of single-specimen/locality species in insect taxonomy: an empirical analysis

J Deng, Y Guo, Z Cheng, C Lu, X Huang - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Furthermore, these techniques often require a larger sample size … In addition, the top 10
insect orders for the number of species … Some old specimens’ lack of imprecise locality or habitat …

Correlates of spread rates for introduced insects

S Fahrner, BH Aukema - Global ecology and biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… ’, with the former including all insects typically requiring a year … between insect orders were
detected when a term for order … , diet preference, fecundity, insect size and mode of dispersal …