The present issue opens the thirtieth volume of Acta Myologica, and, just as people celebrate the appearance of a new century a year ahead of time, we will not wait until the end of the third decade of this journal's appearance , but will hail the first issue, that comes with an XXX printed on its cover, with a short account of the journal's history. Almost 30 years ago, two experts in neuromus...

Recent phylogenetic analyses, both morphological and molecular, strongly support the monophyly of most insect ‘orders’. On the contrary, the Blattaria, Psocoptera, and Mecoptera are defi nitely paraphyletic (with respect of the Isoptera, Phthiraptera, and Siphonaptera, respectively), and the Phthiraptera are possibly diphyletic. Small relictual subclades that are closely related to the Isoptera...

thinking to clarify complex problems. My introduction to Tilney’s Listeria papers came when I sought a post-doctoral position with Daniel Louvard at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. I had previously studied mitosis and wanted to learn about the behaviour of the actin cytoskeleton during mitosis, in particular at cytokinesis. I was directed to Louvard’s associate, Evelyne Friederich, who had recen...