Being the oldest oceanic island in the world and quite isolated from continents, biological evolution occurred there in situ during long periods. As a tropical and medium-sized island harboring a very rich biodiversity, it also offered facilities to study many different evolutionary questions. New ...
Environmental variability has long been postulated as a major selective force in the evolution of large brains. However, assembling evidence for this hypothesis has proved difficult. Here, by combining brain size information for over 1,200 bird species with remote-sensing analyses to estimate temporal...
Moreover, as it is known that biotic evolution is highly correlated with geological and climatological changes33, we also explore the potential environmental factors underlying the formation of the Arctic flora. To unravel the evolutionary history of the Arctic flora, we selected 32 clades and 3626...
Because of their high evolutionary replication, and variation in partner dependence, these systems are powerful models to unveil the steps in the evolution and ecology of insect agriculture.Previous article in issue Next article in issue Keywords insect agriculture ant–plant interactions farming ...
evolution, the invention of the microscope, and the formulation of cell theory all significantly propelled the life sciences forward. The discovery of the DNA double helix and the central dogma of molecular biology revealed the material basis of genetic information, ushering in the era of molecular...
Spiders are numerous early season predators and are thought to play an important role in the suppression of insect pests such as plant- and leafhoppers. Pest res... L Sigsgaard 被引量: 22发表: 2002年 The role of ecosystem biodiversity in the dynamics and management of insects pests of ...
In order to address the coevolution of insect hosts and their symbiotic bacteria, several studies have been carried out in diverse insect orders [11,16,23,25,37,38,39]. Among them, excellent works about how the hosts and their symbiotic bacteria interaction have been carried out in the plan...
Insect biodi- versity and industrialising the taxonomic process: the plant bug case study (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). En: T.R. Hodkinson & J.A.N. Parnell (Eds). Reconstructing the tree of life. Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa, pp. 193-212, CRC ...
(including the subcellular localization of binding within individual cells) in strategically selected representatives of every major insect Order—covering nearly 400 million years of evolution and 490% of insect biodiversity32—thus providing an unparalleled overview of the evolutionary origins of insect ...
Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Tomáš Pavlíček Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand Stephen M. Pawson School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Stephen M. Pawson Institute of Zoology, University of Ham...