Aristotle made important contributions to the study of developmental biology, including the
complete metamorphosis of insects. One concept in particular, that of the perfect or complete …

Many animals depend on microbial symbionts to provide nutrition, defence or other services.
Holometabolous insects, as well as other animals that undergo metamorphosis, face unique …

Metamorphosis is widespread across the animal kingdom and induces fundamental
changes in the morphology, habitat and resources used by an organism during its lifetime …

Insects are one of the few groups of animals that developed the ability of active flight. Such
mobility allowed the group to successfully explore and thrive in nearly all kinds of ecological …

Dermestidae (Bostrichoidea) exploit diverse food sources including fungal mycelia, but
notably they as saprophagous, feeding on decomposing and dried flesh and keratin of …

The Leptolycini are a group of Lycidae endemic to the West Indies. Leptolycini adult females
have been hypothesized to be extreme paedomorphic (ie, larviform), however, females and …

More than 50% of all animal species are insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. The
key innovation of these holometabolous insects is a pupal stage between the larva and adult …

Evolvability is best addressed from a multi-level, macroevolutionary perspective through a
comparative approach that tests for among-clade differences in phenotypic diversification in …

Simple Summary The larvae of owlflies and antlions (here shortly embraced by the term
“owllions”) are ambush predators. Their mouthparts are transformed into teeth-bearing …

Paedomorphosis is a heterochronic syndrome in which adult individuals display features of
their immature forms. In beetles, this phenomenon occurs widely in the superfamily …