Smelling is one of the five senses, which plays an important role in our everyday lives.
Volatile compounds are, for example, characteristics of food where some of them can be …

Species coexistence involves the evolution of reproductive barriers opposing gene flow.
Heliconius butterflies display colorful patterns affecting mate choice and survival through …

Chemical cues are arguably the most fundamental means of animal communication and
play an important role in mate choice and kin recognition. Consequently, there is growing …

Cold‐adapted species are expected to have reached their largest distribution range during a
part of the Ice Ages whereas postglacial warming has led to their range contracting toward …

Abstract Background The Pleistocene climatic oscillations are considered as a major driving
force of intraspecific divergence and speciation. During Ice Ages, populations isolated in …

Delimitation of closely related species is often hindered by the lack of discrete diagnostic
morphological characters. This is exemplified in bumblebees (genus Bombus). There have …

Many islands are biodiversity hotspots that host numerous endemic species. Unfortunately,
insular faunas suffer from high rates of extinction and endangerment, and numerous …

Against the context of global wildlife declines, targeted mitigation strategies have become
critical to preserve what remains of biodiversity. However, the effective development of …

Bumblebees have been the focus of much research, but the taxonomy of many species
groups is still unclear, especially for circumpolar species. Delimiting species based on …

Soil thanatochemistry, defined as the study of the chemical changes occurring during the
decomposition of buried corpses, is a young and inadequately documented field of …