Description: English: Timema douglasi Female from Manchester, California (missing a leg). Date: 3 June 2017. Source: Own work. Author: Darren J. Parker.
Description: John Nicholas Trail to Lake Ranch Reservoir in Sanborn Santa Clara County Park above Los Gatos. Date: 5 May 2013, 12:21. Source: Stick Insects (Timema sp.). Author: Edward Rooks from San Jose, CA, USA.
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Description: English: Timema stick insect on Adenostoma leaves. Date: 24 July 2011. Source: File:Timema_sp._-_walking_stick_insect.jpg. Author: Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations.
Description: John Nicholas Trail to Lake Ranch Reservoir in Sanborn Santa Clara County Park above Los Gatos. Date: 5 May 2013, 10:23. Source: Stick Insect on Toyon. Author: Edward Rooks from San Jose, CA, USA.
Description: After seeing Raphael's photo of the same, I'd been really hoping to finally see onem and lo, they were practically practically falling out of the Ceanothus (well, they were literally falling, after we beat the Ceanothus with sticks). Los Padres National Forest, Santa Lucia Range, California. Date: 5 April 2008, 16:33. Source: Timema!. Author: Ken-ichi Ueda from Oakland, CA, United States. Camera location36° 14′ 02.39″ N, 121° 29′ 14.45″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 36.233996; -121.487348.
Attribution: Moritz Muschick. Timema poppensis perfectly camouflaged on its host, Redwood Sequoia sempervirens, California. This and other, closely related, species are adapted to live on very different host plants and at different elevations. These ecological specialisations have triggered the splitting into distinct species. How this ecological speciation is promoted, for example by divergent camouflage, can be studied by comparing species of Timema stick insects. Analysis of their DNA also reveals which regions in the genome play important roles in ecological speciation. The results of this research will advance our understanding of how biodiversity forms generally.Overall Winner.BMC Ecology 2013, 13:6 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-6www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/6
