… 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), …

… with size is likely, whilst in the former behavioural performance constrains maximum … lengths
(mm) of species in different insect orders and close relatives, superimposed on a cladogram …

… of insect evolution, and among them are specimens in chert from Rhynie, Scotland's Old Red
… to any particular order of basal insects, greatly limiting their utility for understanding early …

… orders occurs mainly in the Palaeozoic. It shows that progressively more recently originating
… We would expect the risk of extinction to be low for large population sizes or densities. …

… 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–…

… In order to ascertain the degree to which the body size of modern animals could be attributed
to evolutionary changes in these parameters, we compare these values to those obtained …

… ancient order of this period is Palaeodictyoptera, an order … , where most of the excavated
insects lived, might have been … causative relation to the large size of the Paleozoic insects. …

… insects typically increase intraspecifically with adult body size… Interspecific comparative
studies on three insect orders have … For initial egg load, we used previous data collected from the …