The majority of living plant species are pollinated by insects, and this interaction is thought to
have played a major role in driving the diversification of modern angiosperms. But while …

Progress toward understanding the dynamics of ancient plant-insect associations has
addressed major patterns in the ecology and evolution of herbivory and pollination. This …

Most contemporary angiosperms (flowering plants) are insect pollinated, but pollination by
wind, water or vertebrates occurs in many lineages. Though evidence suggests insect …

The evolutionary timescale of angiosperms has long been a key question in biology.
Molecular estimates of this timescale have shown considerable variation, being influenced …

The head and mouthpart structures of 11 species of Eurasian scorpionflies represent three
extinct and closely related families during a 62-million-year interval from the late Middle …

Approximately 40% of a plant's dry mass consists of carbon, fixed in photosynthesis. This
process is vital for growth and survival of virtually all plants during the major part of their …

This paper comprises Part II of a review of flower visitation and pollination by Diptera
(myiophily or myophily). While Part I examined taxonomic diversity of anthophilous flies …

Yeast volatiles attract insects, which apparently is of mutual benefit, for both yeasts and
insects. However, it is unknown whether biosynthesis of metabolites that attract insects is a …

Pollination is often regarded as a mutualistic relationship between flowering plants and
insects. In such a relationship, both partners gain a fitness benefit as a result of their …

The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …