Background: Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the rare trees with the ability to produce cork, a material widely used to make wine bottle stoppers, flooring and insulation materials, among many other uses. The molecular mechanisms of cork formation are still poorly understood, in great part due to the difficulty in studying a species with a long life-cycle and for which there is scarce molecular/genomic inform...
The molecular phylogeny of nine Palaearctic species of cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea) was inferred using two mitochondrial DNA genes, Cytochrome Oxidase I and II. The two main groups detected, namely species within Tettigetta and Tympanistalna, as well as the two species investigated in the genus Cicada, are robustly supported across the analytical methods. The structure of the song syllables, generated during...