For over half a century, it has been known that the rate of morphological evolution appears
to vary with the time frame of measurement. Rates of microevolutionary change, measured …

Molecular dating analyses allow evolutionary timescales to be estimated from genetic data,
offering an unprecedented capacity for investigating the evolutionary past of all species …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

Eight years after DNA barcoding was formally proposed on a large scale, CO1 sequences
are rapidly accumulating from around the world. While studies to date have mostly targeted …

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last
few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer …

Müllerian mimicry among Neotropical Heliconiini butterflies is an excellent example of
natural selection, associated with the diversification of a large continental-scale radiation …

Complete mitochondrial genomes have been shown to be reliable markers for phylogeny
reconstruction among diverse animal groups. However, the relative difficulty and high cost …

Mosquitoes are insects of the Diptera, Nematocera, and Culicidae families, some species of
which are important disease vectors. Identifying mosquito species based on morphological …

The migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, is the most widely distributed grasshopper species
in the world. However, its global genetic structure and phylogeographic relationships have …

The native range of the honeybee A pis mellifera encompasses E urope, A frica, and the M
iddle E ast, whereas the nine other species of Apis are found exclusively in A sia. It is …