Halting biodiversity decline is one of the most critical challenges for humanity, but monitoring
biodiversity is hampered by taxonomic impediments. One impediment is the large number of …

We present SequenceMatrix, software that is designed to facilitate the assembly and
analysis of multi‐gene datasets. Genes are concatenated by dragging and dropping FASTA …

Throughout the history of biology since the time of Goethe, morphology as a discipline has
been not only descriptive but explanatory too. Both, morphology itself and its central …

There has been a recent burst of studies of the function of genitalia, many of which share
several important shortcomings. Given that further studies on this topic are likely (there are …

The large Neotropical family G onyleptidae comprises nearly 820 species divided into 16
subfamilies. The majority of publications on harvestman ecology, behaviour and scent gland …

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) arises when the net effects of natural and sexual selection on
body size differ between the sexes. Quantitative SSD variation between taxa is common, but …

Background The species-specificity of male genitalia has been well documented in many
insect groups and sexual selection has been proposed as the evolutionary force driving the …

Few disciplines in science are as obsessed with 'going digital'as taxonomy. This is not
surprising given that 'taxonomy is made for the web: it is an information-rich subject, often …

Sexual selection can displace traits acting as ornaments or armaments from their viability
optimum in one sex, ultimately giving rise to sexual dimorphism. The degree of dimorphism …

Abstract Theory predicts that males have a limited amount of resources to invest in
reproduction, suggesting a trade‐off between traits that enhance mate acquisition and those …