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Nineteen new species of Desmopachria Babington, 1841 (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hyphydrini) with notes on the taxonomy of the genus by Miller, Kelly B

“…Nineteen new species of Babington, 1841 are described from multiple species groups. Two new species groups are erected, the species group and the species…”
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Female reproductive tract form drives the evolution of complex sperm morphology by Higginson, Dawn M, Miller, Kelly B, Segraves, Kari A, Pitnick, Scott

“…The coevolution of female mate preferences and exaggerated male traits is a fundamental prediction of many sexual selection models, but has largely defied…”
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Two new species of Desmopachria Babington, 1841 in the D. convexa species group (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hyphydrini) by Miller, Kelly B

“…Two new species are described in the species group in the Neotropical genus Babington: (Guyana), and (Costa Rica). Two subgroups, the and the groups are…”
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Two new species of Agaporomorphus Guignot from Suriname (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) by Miller, Kelly B

“…Two new species are described in the Neotropical genus Guignot from Suriname: and . The species are included in a phylogenetic parsimony analysis of 13…”
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Description of Nilssondytes diversus gen. et sp. nov. from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Cybistrinae) by Miller, Kelly B, Michat, Mariano C, Ferreira Jr, Nelson

“…A new genus, Nilssondytes gen. nov. , is described for a unique new species, Nilssondytes diversus sp. nov. , from Venezuela. This paper corrects an…”
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Tip-dated phylogeny of whirligig beetles reveals ancient lineage surviving on Madagascar by Gustafson, Grey T., Prokin, Alexander A., Bukontaite, Rasa, Bergsten, Johannes, Miller, Kelly B.

“…The temporal origin of Madagascar’s extraordinary endemic diversity is debated. A preference for Cenozoic dispersal origins has replaced the classical view of…”
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Miradessus gen. nov. from South America described for two species previously in Amarodytes Régimbart, 1900 and two new species (Arthropoda, Insecta, Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini) by Miller, Kelly B, Benetti, Cesar J, Michat, Mariano C

“…Miradessus gen. nov. is described for two previously described species, Amarodytes pulchellus Guignot, 1955 from Colombia, with new records from Venezuela, and…”
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Reclassification of Cybistrinae Sharp, 1880 in the Neotropical Region (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae), with description of new taxa by Miller, Kelly B, Michat, Mariano C, Ferreira, Jr, Nelson

“…The classification of the Neotropical Cybistrinae Sharp, 1880 (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) is extensively revised based on a phylogenetic analysis of…”
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The utility of CAD in recovering Gondwanan vicariance events and the evolutionary history of Aciliini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) by Bukontaite, Rasa, Miller, Kelly B, Bergsten, Johannes

“…Aciliini presently includes 69 species of medium-sized water beetles distributed on all continents except Antarctica. The pattern of distribution with several…”
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The evolution of food preferences in Coccinellidae by Giorgi, José Adriano, Vandenberg, Natalia J., McHugh, Joseph V., Forrester, Juanita A., Ślipiński, S. Adam, Miller, Kelly B., Shapiro, Lori R., Whiting, Michael F.

“…Despite the familiarity and economic significance of Coccinellidae, the family has thus far escaped analysis by rigorous phylogenetic methods. As a result, the…”
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When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and among-site rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics by SONG, HOJUN, SHEFFIELD, NATHAN C., CAMERON, STEPHEN L., MILLER, KELLY B., WHITING, MICHAEL F.

“…The ability to generate large molecular datasets for phylogenetic studies benefits biologists, but such data expansion introduces numerous analytical problems…”
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Phylogeny of diving beetles reveals a coevolutionary arms race between the sexes by Bergsten, Johannes, Miller, Kelly B

“…Darwin illustrated his sexual selection theory with male and female morphology of diving beetles, but maintained a cooperative view of their interaction…”
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A review of the Neotropical genus Bidessodes Régimbart, 1895 including description of four new species (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini) by Miller, Kelly B

“…The Neotropical genus Régimbart, 1895 is reviewed. Four new species are described, Miller, , Miller, , Miller, , and Miller, , bringing the total number of…”
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CONVERGENCE, RECURRENCE AND DIVERSIFICATION OF COMPLEX SPERM TRAITS IN DIVING BEETLES (DYTISCIDAE) by Higginson, Dawn M., Miller, Kelly B., Segraves, Kari A., Pitnick, Scott

“…Sperm display remarkable morphological diversity among even closely related species, a pattern that is widely attributed to postcopulatory sexual selection…”
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Comparative spigot ontogeny across the spider tree of life by Alfaro, Rachael E, Griswold, Charles E, Miller, Kelly B

“…Spiders are well known for their silk and its varying use across taxa. Very few studies have examined the silk spigot ontogeny of the entire spinning field of…”
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The Lepidoptera of Cuatrociénegas Protected Area 1. A new species in the genus Callistege Hübner, [1823] (Erebidae, Erebinae, Euclidiini) from the Chihuahuan Desert, Coahuila, Mexico by Homziak, Nicholas T, Lightfoot, David C, Metzler, Eric H, Miller, Kelly B

“…A new species of Callistege Hübner, [1823] (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae, Euclidiini) is described from Cuatrociénegas Protected Area and Biosphere Preserve…”
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A molecular phylogenetic study of Cucujidae s.l. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) by MCELRATH, THOMAS C., ROBERTSON, JAMES A., THOMAS, MICHAEL C., OSBORNE, JONATHAN, MILLER, KELLY B., MCHUGH, JOSEPH V., WHITING, MICHAEL F.

“…Of all the superfamilies within the megadiverse order Coleoptera (Insecta), Cucujoidea (Cucujiformia) is arguably the most problematic taxonomically. The…”
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On the systematics of Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Hydradephaga): Phylogeny, description of a new tribe, genus and species, and survey of female genital morphology by Miller, Kelly B.

“…A phylogenetic analysis of Noteridae Thomson, 1860 is presented based on 33 adult morphological characters with focus on placement of a new genus and species…”
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Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical Agabus raffrayi species group with the description of four new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) by Englund, William F, Njoroge, Laban, Biström, Olof, Miller, Kelly B, Bilton, David T, Bergsten, Johannes

“…We revise the Afrotropical Agabus raffrayi species group, motivated by the discovery of new diversity in Kenya and South Africa. Whilst Agabus is mainly a…”
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A world review of the bristle fly parasitoids of webspinners by Badano, Davide, Lenzi, Alice, O'Hara, James E, Miller, Kelly B, Di Giulio, Andrea, Di Giovanni, Filippo, Cerretti, Pierfilippo

“…Dipteran parasitoids of Embioptera (webspinners) are few and extremely rare but known from all biogeographical regions except Australasia/Oceania. All belong…”
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