Extracellular DNA traps (ETs) are evolutionarily conserved antimicrobial mechanisms
present in protozoa, plants, and animals. In this review, we compare their similarities in …

To better understand insect evolution, fossils–mainly known by their wings–must be used as
terminals in phylogenetic analyses. Such analyses are, however, rarely performed because …

Among insects, tympanal ears evolved at least 18 times, resulting in a diversity of auditory
systems. Insects use their ears in different behavioural contexts, mainly intraspecific …

Orthoptera have been used for decades for numerous evolutionary questions but several of
its constituent groups, notably crickets, still suffer from a lack of a robust phylogenetic …

In this article, we investigate convergent evolution toward durophagy in carnivoran skull
shape using geometric morphometrics in a sample of living and extinct species. Principal …

The hypothesis of monophyly in Paguroidea and the relationship of this superfamily to the
other three superfamilies of Anomura have been reassessed using current cladistic methods …

Phylogenetic studies of the stick and leaf insects (insect “order” Phasmatodea) have been
essentially lacking for a long period of time. Although the taxonomy of phasmatodeans has …

Traditional justifications of parsimony in phylogenetic inference assume a correspondence
between character‐state similarity and steps (character transformation events). In addition to …

Recently-developed, molecularly-based phylogenies of geckos have provided the basis for
reassessing the number of times adhesive toe-pads have arisen within the Gekkota. At …

We studied the advertisement signals in two clades of North American hylid frogs in order to
characterize the relationships between signal acoustic structure and underlying behavior. A …