In spite of being a worldwide phenomenon that can have important ecological, economic
and social consequences, freshwater salinization (ie the increase in ion concentrations in …

Biological diversity is depleting at an alarming rate. Additionally, a vast amount of
biodiversity still remains undiscovered. Taxonomy has been serving the purpose of …

The use of the “integrative approach” for classification of organisms since its formal
establishment in 2005 has become a recurrent theme of zoosystematics. A bibliometric …

The essential key to routine molecular species identification (DNA barcoding/metabarcoding
) is the existence of an error-free DNA barcode reference library providing full coverage of all …

Considering how organisms adapt to stress is essential if we are to anticipate biological
responses to global change in ecosystems. Communities in stressful environments can …

Exposing organisms to a particular stressor may enhance tolerance to a subsequent stress,
when protective mechanisms against the two stressors are shared. Such cross-tolerance is a …

Evaluating species boundaries remains a significant challenge in rare, difficult to collect,
and/or understudied groups because of a lack of available data. Uninformative morphology …

A complex of white‐eared opossums (Didelphis spp.) is distributed across three distinct
areas of South America, but recent taxonomic treatments have disagreed regarding species …

Abstract Background Triatoma dimidiata (Reduviidae: Triatominae) is an important vector of
Chagas disease in various countries in the Americas. Phylogenetic studies have defined …

In species differentiation, characters may not diverge synchronously, and there are also
processes that shuffle character states in lineages descendant from a common ancestor …