DNA techniques, analytical methods and palaeoclimatic studies are greatly advancing our
knowledge of the global distribution of genetic diversity, and how it evolved. Such …

This contribution attempts to bring some general information on the evolution and, in
particular, on the geographic distribution of scorpion species noxious to humans. Since 95 …

Androctonus crassicauda is one of the medically important scorpion species occurring in the
Middle East. In this study, molecular variation in mtDNA cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) …

Aim In contrast to the attention given to southern Europe both as a centre of speciation and
differentiation and as a Pleistocene refugium of Western Palaearctic taxa, North Africa has …

We used mitochondrial cyt b sequences to investigate the phylogenetic relationships of
Crocidura russula (sensu lato) populations across the Strait of Gibraltar, western Europe …

Background Lychas mucronatus is one scorpion species widely distributed in Southeast
Asia and southern China. Anything is hardly known about its venom components, despite …

Forficula auricularia (the European earwig) is possibly a complex of cryptic species. To test
this hypothesis, we performed:(1) a phylogeographic study based on fragments of the …

The episodic nature of natural selection and the accumulation of extreme sequence
divergence in venom-encoding genes over long periods of evolutionary time can obscure …

Aim One of the planet's most imposing geomorphological features, the Andes, played an
important role in the evolution of South America's flora and fauna. The bothriurid scorpion …

Background The age of lineages has become a fundamental datum in studies exploring the
interaction between geological transformation and biotic diversification. However …