Manfred Walzl

TL;DR: The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified and provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.

TL;DR: It is shown that phylogenomic data can substantially advance the understanding of arthropod evolution and resolve several conflicts among existing hypotheses.

TL;DR: It is shown that the analyses of structure and signal within phylogenomic data can protect us from biased phylogenetic inferences due to analytical artifacts, and is also shown that unevenly distributed missing data can be severely misleading by inflating node support despite the absence of phylogenetic signal.

TL;DR: It is assumed that inhibitory effects of lactation on gonadal development may mediate the negative relationship between reproductive effort and subsequent reproductive timing in adults, which is absent in yearlings because they are reproducing for the first time.

TL;DR: Strong evidence is found that the gular patch is a gland producing volatile compounds, which might be emitted while calling and suggested that reed frogs might use a complex combination of at least acoustic and chemical signals in species recognition and mate choice.