Category Archives: insects

The glaciers of the last ice age left their mark on the genetic diversity of species across the globe

Posted on 28 Aug, 2023 by Jeremy Yoder

For the last two and a half million years or so — up until a certain species of upright-walking ape descendants really started making their presence known — the greatest force shaping Earth’s biological diversity may well have been ice. … Continue reading →

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Sparrows and spiders and aggression, oh my!

Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

One of the major goals of evolutionary biology is to link phenotypic variation with specific genetic variation, yet for behavioral phenotypes in non-model species, this task remains daunting and generally elusive. Although behaviors are heritable and clearly acted upon by … Continue reading →

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Everything About Ant Reproductive Biology is Bizarre

Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Sam Gregory wrote this post as a project for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sam earned a BS in biology and BFA in studio art from Birmingham-Southern College, and is currently pursuing an … Continue reading →

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Beetles' diversity was driven by coevolution with plants — and a little help from some microbial friends

Posted on 21 Jan, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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