Twelve new weevil species were discovered by Jake Lewis's team at OIST, employing both innovative and classical taxonomy ...

A study published in PeerJ has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary history of sea stars, particularly the family ...

A  study published in PeerJ Life and Environment has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary history of sea stars, ...

The Melita panda, a newly classified amphipod species found in Japan, illustrates the critical role of taxonomy in ...

(VAN) In a study published in Nature, a team has uncovered new new details about the long association between humans and our ...

Aphanerostethus magnus (Oo-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi) and Aphanerostethus japonicus (Nippon-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi). One of these, Aphanerostethus japonicus, is also found in Yanbaru National ...

Phylogenetic tree of eight Aphanerostethus species constructed by comparing genetic information to see how closely related different species are. This helped Lewis and his team verify their ...

Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and ...