The traditional method of classifying the twenty-one species within the South American genus Polythore has been relying on wing color patterns and male genital ligula shape.
Research News
New study on predator-prey interactions of snails
Most research on predation in the marine fossil record has focused on specimens from North America and Europe.
Seed shrimps feature in mass extinction study
Ostracods are small crustaceans living in a variety of environments. They were also present in and on the ocean floor in Brazil 66 million years ago.
New overview of fossil anomuran crustaceans
The Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology are a series of chapters published since the 20th century with overviews of invertebrate fossil groups.
Assessment of targeted enrichment locus capture across time and museums using odonate specimens
The use of gDNAs isolated from museum specimens for high throughput sequencing, especially targeted sequencing in the context of phylogenetics, is a common practice.
Solving a crab genus enigma
Naming species and putting them into their correct place in the family tree is essential in biology and paleontology.
UA Museums’ Research in Antarctica
For Kevin Kocot’s team, things were busy, but successful and fun on the Nathaniel B. Palmer in Eastern Antarctica!
Insects of North America
Insects of North America is a field guide that enables you to identify all 783 families of insects currently recognized in the United States and Canada!
A non-marine horseshoe crab from the Middle Triassic (Anisian)
Horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura) have a long evolutionary history starting in the Ordovician, but the number of species is relatively low.
Are wing contours good classifiers for automatic identification in Odonata? A view from the Targeted Odonata Wing Digitization (TOWD) project
In recent decades, a lack of available knowledge about the magnitude, identity and distribution of biodiversity has given way to a taxonomic impediment where species are not being described as