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Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead‐end

Evolution, Volume 71, Issue 10, Page 2522-2532, October 2017., 2017
Abstract Caves are perceived as isolated, extreme habitats with a uniquely specialized biota, which long ago led to the idea that caves are “evolutionary dead‐ends.” This implies that cave‐adapted taxa may be doomed for extinction before they can diversify or transition to a more stable state.
David B. Stern, Jesse Breinholt, Carlos Pedraza‐Lara, Marilú López‐Mejía, Christopher L. Owen, Heather Bracken‐Grissom, James W. Fetzner Jr., Keith A. Crandall   +7 more
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Figure 1 in Evolution of cave living in Hawaiian Schrankia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with description of a remarkable new cave species

, 2009
Figure 1. Phylogenetic patterns predicted by three hypotheses of cave colonization. A, climatic relict hypothesis (CRH): The hypogean sister species to the troglobite is extinct, and the next most related species has an allopatric distribution with the ...
Howarth, Francis G., Medeiros, Matthew J., Gillespie, Rosemary, Davis, Don   +3 more
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Pattern and Process: Evolution of Troglomorphy in the Cave-Planthoppers of Australia and Hawai’i ‒ Preliminary Observations (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Acta Carsologica, 2007
The evolution of troglobites comprises three distinct problems: cave colonization by an epigean ancestor, the evolution of troglomorphies, and intra-cave speciation.
Andreas Wessel, Petra Erbe, Hannelore Hoch   +2 more
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Ayyalonia dimentmani n. g., n. sp. (Ayyaloniini n. Trib., Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones) from a cave in Israel [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2008
A new eyeless troglobitic pseudoscorpion, Ayyalonia dimentmani n. g., n. sp., is described from inside karstic voids in Israel that form a completely isolated, old underground ecosystem with living populations of blind pseudoscorpions, crustaceans ...
Ćurčić B.P.M.
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Far From Roads, Challenges Arise: Unravelling Knowledge Gaps in the Occurrence of Cave‐Restricted Species on the African Continent

African Journal of Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 8, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Understanding patterns of biodiversity distribution is fundamental for ecology, biogeography, and conservation. However, persistent challenges arise from the inaccessibility of many regions and habitats. Subterranean environments, in particular, host highly distinctive and specialised faunal assemblages, yet their investigation is hindered by ...
Lais Furtado Oliveira, Rodrigo Antônio Castro‐Souza, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Marconi Souza‐Silva   +3 more
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Divergent Evolution of Male Aggressive Behaviour: Another Reproductive Isolation Barrier in Extremophile Poeciliid Fishes?

International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Reproductive isolation among locally adapted populations may arise when immigrants from foreign habitats are selected against via natural or (inter‐)sexual selection (female mate choice). We asked whether also intrasexual selection through male‐male competition could promote reproductive isolation among populations of poeciliid fishes that are locally ...
David Bierbach, Moritz Klein, Vanessa Sassmannshausen, Ingo Schlupp, Rüdiger Riesch, Jakob Parzefall, Martin Plath, Kyoichi Sawamura   +7 more
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Male midbody legs of each of the six families.

, 2017
Red color represents the leg of a troglobite; black color marks the epigean congener. 1: coxa; 2: prefemur; 3: femur; 4: postfemur; 5: tibia; 6: tarsus.
Mingyi Tian (3726562), Sergei Golovatch (3726559), Weixin Liu (519888), Thomas Wesener (193514)   +3 more
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Diversity and distribution of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Brazilian caves based on the Zoological Collection of the Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos (LES) of the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) [PDF]

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
Water beetles are taxonomically diverse and can colonize different environments. Sixteen families occur in Brazil, most of which have already been recorded in caves.
Tamires Zepon, Roberta Mafra Freitas da Silva, Maria Elina Bichuette   +2 more
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Population Size and Spatial Distribution of the Mexican Blind Cavefish (Astyanax) within the Caves

Fishes
The most studied cavefish in the world is Astyanax mexicanus, and the most frequently used specimens in research come from the Pachón cave in Northeast Mexico.
Luis Espinasa, Rose L. Tatarsky, Michael Kevin Girard, Michael Sandone, Sylvie Rétaux, Jordi Espinasa   +5 more
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KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R

Ecography, Volume 2024, Issue 9, September 2024.
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) represent the largest global network of sites critical to the persistence of biodiversity, which have been identified against standardised quantitative criteria. Sites that hold very high biodiversity value or potential are given specific attention on site‐based conservation targets of the Kunming‐Montreal Global ...
Konstantina Spiliopoulou, François Rigal, Andrew J. Plumptre, Panayiotis Trigas, Kaloust Paragamian, Axel Hochkirch, Petros Lymberakis, Danae Portolou, Maria Th. Stoumboudi, Kostas A. Triantis   +9 more
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