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ArticleZooKeys2025

The early evolution of caddisflies: Milne and Milne revisited.

Paul B Frandsen, Ralph W Holzenthal

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Article in ZooKeys, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Paul B FrandsenDepartment of Plant and Wildlife Sciences and Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA Brigham Young University Provo United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-7579
Ralph W HolzenthalDepartment of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA University of Minnesota St. Paul United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-6340

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 1939, Margery and Lorus Milne published a creative figure that illustrated the evolutionary history of caddisflies. Here, we pay tribute to that paper by generating a new figure in the style of the original, updated with our most recent knowledge of caddisfly evolution, informed by phylogenomic inference and a statistical treatment of ancestral states. Our analysis infers that the ancestral larval caddisfly was a free-living detritivore, living in flowing water. It spun a cocoon prior to pupation within a dome-shaped pupal shelter. In subsequent lineages, caddisflies evolved a variety of larval construction behaviors, which enabled unprecedented ecological diversification, allowing them to become one of the most diverse lineages of freshwater animals.

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CaddisflyevolutionfreshwaterphylogeneticsTrichoptera

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PMID41426528
PMCPMC12712623

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