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INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 590-606Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp043
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- Direct For Biological Sciences [0819936, 0903757] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0746352] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0743542, 0814544] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0903757, 0819936] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This article derives from a society-wide symposium organized by Timothy Bradley and Adriana Briscoe and presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Boston, Massachusetts. David Grimaldi provided the opening presentation in which lie outlined the major evolutionary events in the formation and subsequent diversification of the insect clade. This presentation was followed by speakers who detailed the evolutionary history of specific physiological and/or behavioral traits that have caused insects to be both ecologically successful and fascinating as subjects for biological study. These include a review of the evolutionary history of the insects, the origins of flight, osmoregulation, the evolution of tracheal systems, the evolution of color vision, circadian clocks, and the evolution of eusociality. These topics, as covered by the speakers, provide an overview of the pattern and timing of evolutionary diversification and specialization in the group of animals we know as insects.
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