We know very little about insect evolution despite them inhabiting every kind of environment on our planet. At a time when the future of many insect species is threatened, researchers are looking to ...

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Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

A new study titled "Geographical patterns and determinants of insect biodiversity in China" and published in Science China Life Sciences has been led by Prof. Fuwen Wei (Institute of Zoology, Chinese ...

Eating insects is completely normal in large parts of the world, yet in Europe and North America the idea still makes most ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether ...