understanding of the evolution of insects is based on studies of the following branches of science: molecular biology, insect morphology, paleontology, insect taxonomy...

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Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous...

as adults. The earliest insect forms showed direct development (ametabolism), and the evolution of metamorphosis in insects is thought to have fuelled...

of those groups. The cladistic term for the same phenomenon is homoplasy. The recurrent evolution of flight is a classic example, as flying insects,...

The evolution of the peppered moth is an evolutionary instance of directional colour change in the moth population as a consequence of air pollution during...

Fritz, Stamp & Halverson (1982) define semelparous insects as "insects that lay a single clutch of eggs in their lifetime and deposit them at one place...

diverse forms; the evolution of plants; the evolution of fish, arthropods and molluscs; the terrestrial colonization and evolution of insects, chelicerates...

(2003). "The ecology and evolution of eusociality in sponge-dwelling shrimp". Genes, Behaviors and Evolution of Social Insects: 217–254. Duffy, J. E.;...

that insects really do breathe, with "rapid cycles of tracheal compression and expansion". Recent analysis of the flight energetics of modern insects and...

Insects are the only group of invertebrates that have evolved wings and flight. Insects first flew in the Carboniferous, some 300 to 350 million years...

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Acta 70, 5653–64. See the dotted line in Fig. 1 of Atmospheric oxygen level and the evolution of insect body size by Jon F. Harrison, Alexander Kaiser...

fertility. Insects have at least one copy of both genes, and occasionally duplications. Low expression of ATPα2 has also been noted in other insects. Duplications...

ventral surface of the abdomen of most larval forms of insects of the order Lepidoptera, though they can also be found on larvae of insects such as sawflies...

Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

(/ˌɛntəˈmɒfədʒi/, from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects. An alternative term is insectivory. Terms...

inactive as of November 2024 (link) Nagy, Lisa M.; Grbić, Miodrag (1999), "Cell Lineages in Larval Development and Evolutions of Holometabolous Insects", The...

of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago (or adult). Holometabolism is a synapomorphic trait of all insects...

Historically, insects have been the most significant herbivores, and the evolution of land plants is closely associated with the evolution of insects. While...

blood-sucking insects. Other blood-sucking insects infect livestock with diseases that kill many animals and greatly reduce the usefulness of others. Ticks...

plants and insects in On the Origin of Species (1859). Although he did not use the word coevolution, he suggested how plants and insects could evolve...

Insects have mouthparts that may vary greatly across insect species, as they are adapted to particular modes of feeding. The earliest insects had chewing...

of both sexes. However, individuals of most species remain of one sex their entire lives. A few species of insects and crustaceans can reproduce by parthenogenesis...

ἔντομον (entomon) 'insect' and -λογία (-logia) 'study') is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term insect was less specific...

are similar. An example of convergent evolution is the development of flight in birds, bats, and insects, all of which are not closely related but share...

species feeding on insects or invertebrates). An overview of each family is provided here. For detailed taxa and descriptions of the species in each...

as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...