Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2022 Evolution can repeat itself, resulting in parallel adaptations in independent lineages occupying similar environments. Moreover, parallel evolution sometimes, but not always, uses the same genes.
Chaturvedi S +7 more
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Reticulate evolution in stick insects: the case of
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background Phasmids show noteworthy abilities to overcome species-specific reproductive isolation mechanisms, including hybridization, polyploidy, parthenogenesis, hybridogenesis and androgenesis.
Milani Liliana +4 more
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Effect of Thoracic Connective Lesion on Inter-Leg Coordination in Freely Walking Stick Insects. [PDF]
Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 2021 Multi-legged locomotion requires appropriate coordination of all legs with coincident ground contact. Whereas behaviourally derived coordination rules can adequately describe many aspects of inter-leg coordination, the neural mechanisms underlying these ...
Niemeier M, Jeschke M, Dürr V.
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Facultative parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in stick insects? [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2023 Transitions from obligate sex to obligate parthenogenesis have occurred repeatedly across the tree of life. Whether these transitions occur abruptly or via a transient phase of facultative parthenogenesis is rarely known.
Chloé Larose +4 more
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Hydrocarbon divergence and reproductive isolation in Timema stick insects. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2013 Schwander T +5 more
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A second view on the evolution of flight in stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The re-evolution of complex characters is generally considered impossible, yet, studies of recent years have provided several examples of phenotypic reversals shown to violate Dollo’s law. Along these lines, the regain of wings in stick and leaf insects (
S Bank, Sven Bradler
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New species of Andropromachus (Phasmatodea: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae: Necrosciini) from Yunnan Province, China [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The genus Andropromachus (Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae: Necrosciini) is a small genus of stick insects including four species with a distribution in northern Vietnam and south-western China.A new species of stick insects Andropromachus gulinqingensis sp. n.
ChongXin Xie, Jun Cai, YuHan Qian
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A new representative of the “orthopteroid” insect family Cnemidolestidae from the lower Permian of Germany [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Palatinarkema prokopi gen. et sp. nov., the third German representative of the late Carboniferous–early Permian archaeorthopteran clade Cnemidolestidae is described and figured. It is compared to the other known genera. We discuss putative aspects of the
Andre Nel, Markus J. Poschmann
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Adaptive zones shape the magnitude of premating reproductive isolation in Timema stick insects. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 Simpson's fossil-record inspired model of ‘adaptive zones’ proposes that evolution is dominated by small fluctuations within adaptive zones, occasionally punctuated by larger shifts between zones. This model can help explain why the process of population
Muschick M +4 more
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Three first records of stick insects attacking plants (Inseect: Phasmida) in Tibet
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 Except for a few stick insects that are economically valuable, most species be considered to be forest pests, so it is extremely important to obtain plant host-use information of more stick insects.
F. L. Xu +5 more
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