Amazonia arguably harbours the highest plant species diversity of all wet tropical regions on earth. There is increasing evidence that this enormous diversity is the product of a rather long and ...

The family Gesneriaceae, renowned for its striking floral diversity and complex morphological traits, has long intrigued botanists and evolutionary biologists. Recent advances in molecular ...

• Bromeliads represent a major component of neotropical forests and encompass a considerable diversity of life forms and nutritional modes. Bromeliads explore highly stressful habitats and ...

The gall wasp group (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) represents an exceptional model for understanding ecological interactions, evolutionary innovation and the dynamic interplay between insects and their host ...

Focus: The phylogenetics of all major centipede groups based on novel morphological and molecular data Our research on centipedes (Chilopoda) includes studies on deep phylogeny and phylogeography, the ...

Many edible, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms that we are familiar with belong to the order Agaricales, which is a group of fungi with important economic and ecological value. Understanding the ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

Lawrence, T. J. and S. L. Datwyler. 2016. Testing the hypothesis of allopolyploidy in the origin of Penstemon azureus (Plantaginaceae). Frontiers in Ecology and ...

Phylogenetic and taxonomic updates of Agaricales, with an emphasis on Tricholomopsis (IMAGE) ...