Subdivided Pleistocene glacial refugia, best known as “refugia within refugia”, provided
opportunities for diverging populations to evolve into incipient species and/or to hybridize …

Mexico is part of the Mesoamerican region where ancient bee keeping (meliponiculture, or
stingless bee keeping) emerged and reached exceptional levels. Different events caused …

Various methodologies including genetic analyses, morphometrics, proteomics, lipidomics,
metabolomics, etc. are now used or being developed to authenticate fish and seafood. Such …

Aim Species living on steep environmental gradients are expected to be especially sensitive
to global climate change, but little is known about the factors influencing their responses to …

Molecular data have transformed approaches to trematode taxonomy by providing objective
evidence for the delineation of species. However, although the data are objective, the …

The approximately three times higher rate of migraine prevalence in women than men may
result from the mitochondrial transmission of this disease. Studies with imaging techniques …

Species diversity can be inferred using multiple data types, however, results based on
genetic data can be at odds with patterns of phenotypic variation. Tiger beetles of the …

Many marine species are specialized to specific parts of a habitat. In a mangrove forest, for
instance, species may be restricted to the mud surface, the roots and trunks of mangrove …

Cold‐adapted species are likely to have had more widespread ranges and greater
population connectivity during the last glacial period than is the case today. This contrasts …

Abstract The New Zealand alpine cave wētā genus Pharmacus was first described by Pictet
& de Saussure (1893) as a monotypic taxon. Three species were added to the genus by …