Adhesive pads are functional systems with specific micro-and nanostructures which evolved
as a response to specific environmental conditions and therefore exhibit convergent traits …

Although the affective and cognitive effects of seizures have long received attention, the
anxiety spectrum of psychiatric complications of epilepsy has not been well-studied. Neither …

Phasmatodea comprises over 3,000 extant species and stands out as one of the last
remaining insect orders for which a robust, higher-level phylogenetic hypothesis is lacking …

The insect order Phasmatodea is known for large slender insects masquerading as twigs or
bark. In contrast to these so-called stick insects, the subordinated clade of leaf insects …

Background The re-evolution of complex characters is generally considered impossible, yet,
studies of recent years have provided several examples of phenotypic reversals shown to …

Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large terrestrial herbivorous arthropods known for
masquerading as plant parts such as bark, twigs and leaves. Their evolutionary history is …

Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are a distinctive insect order whose members are
characterized by mimicking various plant tissues such as twigs, foliage and bark …

The concept that complex ancestral traits can never be recovered after their loss is still
widely accepted, despite phylogenetic and molecular approaches suggest instances where …

Stick insects are well adapted in their locomotion to various surfaces and topographies of
natural substrates. Single pad measurements characterised the pretarsal arolia of these …

Phasmatodea species diversity lies almost entirely within its suborder Euphasmatodea,
which exhibits a pantropical distribution and is considered to derive from a recent and rapid …