Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Asymmetries are a pervading phenomenon in otherwise bilaterally symmetric organisms
and recent studies have highlighted their potential impact on our understanding of …

Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

The taxonomy, diversity, and distribution of the aquatic insect order Trichoptera, caddisflies,
are reviewed. The order is among the most important and diverse of all aquatic taxa. Larvae …

The application of forensics to wildlife crime investigation routinely involves genetic species
identification based on DNA sequence similarity. This work can be hindered by a lack of …

The Trichoptera, or caddisflies, are traditionally split into two taxonomic subdivisions: the
'retreat‐making'Annulipalpia and the 'case‐making'Integripalpia (sensu Ross). The …

The nuclear small subunit rRNA (18S) has played a dominant role in the estimation of
relationships among insect orders from molecular data. In previous studies, 18S sequences …

The not yet uploaded Trichoptera World Checklist (TWC)[http://entweb. clemson.
edu/database/trichopt/search. htm], as at July 2006, recorded 12,627 species, 610 genera …

Trichoptera are holometabolous insects with aquatic larvae that, together with the
Lepidoptera, make up the Amphiesmenoptera. Despite extensive previous morphological …

DNA barcoding was intended as a means to provide species-level identifications through
associating DNA sequences from unknown specimens to those from curated reference …