Publications by authors named "F Juna"
Although French Guiana is one of the greatest hotspots of cockroach biodiversity on Earth, there are still undocumented species. From both newly collected and museum specimens, we provide species descriptions for Buboblatta vlasaki sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPollination efficiency of cockroaches and other floral visitors of Clusia blattophila.
Plant Biol (Stuttg)
July 2019
Cockroaches have rarely been documented as pollinators. In this paper we examine whether this is because they might be inefficient at pollination compared to other pollinators. Clusia blattophila, a dioecious shrub growing on isolated rocky outcrops in French Guiana, is pollinated by Amazonina platystylata cockroaches and provides a valuable system for the study of cockroach pollination efficiency.
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- After the acceptance of plate tectonics theory, vicariance became the main explanation for how many plant and animal groups are distributed, but recent molecular research has called some of these ideas into question.
- Cockroaches, with a 300 million-year fossil record, serve as a model for studying the impacts of vicariance versus transoceanic dispersal on their evolutionary history, which has yet to be fully understood due to complicated family relationships.
- Our study found that both vicariance through plate tectonics and transoceanic dispersal have significantly influenced the distribution and diversity of cockroaches, suggesting a complex interplay between these two processes.