As an ancient lineage of ferns, Ophioglossaceae are evolutionarily among the most fascinating because they have the highest chromosome count of any kn......
Climate fluctuations and tectonic reconfigurations associated with environmental changes play large roles in determining patterns of adaptation and di......
Temperate South American-Asian disjunct distributions are the most unusual in organisms, and challenging to explain. Here, we address the origin of th......
In order to place a newly discovered speciesAntigracilus costatusgen. sp. n.from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (China) and to assess previousl......
Here, we publish Lepisorus sect. Paragramma (Blume) C.F. Zhao, R. Wei & X.C. Zhang as a combinatio nova to replace the section name in Zhao et al.......
Evolutionary rate heterogeneity and rapid radiations are common phenomena in organismal evolution and represent major challenges for reconstructing de......
With efficient sequencing techniques, full mitochondrial genomes are rapidly replacing other widely used markers, such as the nuclear rRNA genes, for ......
Based on fifteen Archaeognatha (=Microcoryphia) specimens from Myanmar (Burmese) amber, including males, females and immatures, two new genera and fou......
More loci/partitions should improve Bayesian estimation of divergence times on phylogenies but it has recently been shown that this can lead to surpri......
Members of the family Scutelleridae (Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea) are also called shield bugs because of the greatly enlarged scutellu......
