Speciation is a continuous and complex process shaped by the interaction of numerous
evolutionary forces. Despite the continuous nature of the speciation process, the …

Hybridization is a widespread phenomenon in the evolution of plants and exploring its role
is crucial to understanding diversification processes of many taxonomic groups. Recently …

Global climate changes during the Miocene may have created ample opportunities for
hybridization between members of tropical and subtropical biomes at the boundary between …

Historical specimens from museum collections provide a valuable source of material also
from remote areas or regions of conflict that are not easily accessible to scientists today. With …

Species delimitation in the genomic era has focused predominantly on the application of
multiple analytical methodologies to a single massive parallel sequencing (MPS) data set …

Evolutionary changes in geographic distribution and larval host plants may promote the
rapid diversification of montane insects, but this scenario has been rarely investigated. We …

Humans are regularly cited as the main driver of current biodiversity extinction, but the
impact of historic volcanic activity is often overlooked. Pre-human evidence of wildlife …

Though the karst regions in south and southwest China are plant diversity hotspots, our
understanding of the phylogeography and evolutionary history of the plants there remains …

Aim Palaeoceanographic changes can act as drivers of diversification and speciation, even
in highly mobile marine organisms. Shearwaters are a group of globally distributed and …

Urostylididae, a phytophagous heteropteran family that feeds on the sap of various trees and
shrubs, comprises 8 genera and 173 species. Its phylogeny has received little attention, and …