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Considerable gene flow in troglomorphic cockroach species across a vast subterranean landscape

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 11, Page 1967-1980, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim There has been growing interest in non‐cave subterranean habitats and their influence on the evolution of troglomorphic (i.e. ‘subterranean adapted’) species. Studies on the diversification of aquatic subterranean organisms in these habitats generally support the ‘subterranean island’ hypothesis, whereby isolated subterranean refuges lead ...
Kyle M. Ewart, Toby G. L. Kovacs, James Walker, Nikolai J. Tatarnic, Huon Clark, Nathan Lo   +5 more
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Phylogeographic relationships and morphological evolution between cave and surface Astyanax mexicanus populations (De Filippi 1853) (Actinopterygii, Characidae)

Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 20, Page 5626-5644, October 2023., 2023
Abstract The Astyanax mexicanus complex includes two different morphs, a surface‐ and a cave‐adapted ecotype, found at three mountain ranges in Northeastern Mexico: Sierra de El Abra, Sierra de Guatemala and Sierra de la Colmena (Micos). Since their discovery, multiple studies have attempted to characterize the timing and the number of events that gave
Marco Garduño‐Sánchez, Jorge Hernández‐Lozano, Rachel L. Moran, Ramsés Miranda‐Gamboa, Joshua B. Gross, Nicolas Rohner, William R. Elliott, Jeff Miller, Lourdes Lozano‐Vilano, Suzanne E. McGaugh, C. Patricia Ornelas‐García   +10 more
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The Vitruvian spider: Segmenting and integrating over different body parts to describe ecophenotypic variation

Journal of Morphology, Volume 283, Issue 11, Page 1425-1438, November 2022., 2022
Although the link between species' phenotypes and their ecological performance is a well‐know phenomenon, in nonmodel systems discerning which body parts respond to specific ecological pressures might not be intuitive and can even be misleading sometimes.
Adrià Bellvert, Marcos Roca‐Cusachs, Vanina Tonzo, Miquel A. Arnedo, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou   +4 more
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Thermal tolerance and vulnerability to climate change in subterranean species: a case study using an Iberian endemic pseudoscorpion

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 181-190, March 2022., 2022
We assess the vulnerability to climate change of the Iberian endemic subterranean pseudoscorpion Neobisium (Blothrus) vasconicum vasconicum. The fate of this species under future climatic scenarios is different depending of the approach used to estimate thermal tolerance.
Raquel Colado, Antonio José García‐Meseguer, Juana María Mirón‐Gatón, María Botella‐Cruz, Susana Pallarés, David Sánchez‐Fernández   +5 more
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Parallel morphological evolution and habitat‐dependent sexual dimorphism in cave‐ vs. surface populations of the Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae) species complex

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 21, Page 15389-15403, November 2021., 2021
Surface‐dwelling species that repeatedly and independently colonized caves such as Asellus aquaticus provide unique models to study parallel evolution. We measured and analyzed 17 functional morphological traits on 656 individuals from 15 cave and surface populations. We found that besides the expected habitat‐related morphological changes habitat type
Gergely Balázs, Anna Biró, Žiga Fišer, Cene Fišer, Gábor Herczeg   +4 more
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The limits of Quediini at last (Staphylinidae: Staphylininae): a rove beetle mega‐radiation resolved by comprehensive sampling and anchored phylogenomics

Systematic Entomology, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 396-421, April 2021., 2021
Novel probe set developed for anchored hybrid enrichment of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera), targeting 1229 single‐copy, protein‐encoding, orthologous loci from the nuclear genome. Comprehensive phylogeny of rove beetle tribe Quediini (∼800 spp.), with 46% of 201 ingroup taxa sequenced from pinned specimens, will serve as framework for needed generic ...
Adam J. Brunke, Aslak K. Hansen, Maria Salnitska, Janina L. Kypke, Alexander V. Predeus, Hermes Escalona, Julie T. Chapados, Jackson Eyres, Robin Richter, Aleš Smetana, Adam Ślipiński, Andreas Zwick, Jiří Hájek, Richard A.B. Leschen, Alexey Solodovnikov, Jeremy R. Dettman   +15 more
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Colonization of subterranean habitats by spiders in Central Europe

International Journal of Speleology, 2013
Using data from the Czech Republic, we studied the distribution of spiders in soils, crevice systems, scree and caves, i.e. subterranean habitats at depths spanning from 10 cm to 100 m. In total, we found 161 species.
Vlastimil Růžička, Petr Šmilauer, Roman Mlejnek   +2 more
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The influence of subterranean habitats in the sensorial and brain morphology of hypogean and epigean Copionodontinae catfish (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) [PDF]

Subterranean Biology
Brazilian cavefishes are among the richest troglobitic ichthyofauna worldwide including 13 genera. Most cavefish in the Neotropical region belong to Siluriformes.
Thalia Rodovanski, Maria Elina Bichuette, Mauricio Cetra, George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox   +3 more
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Catching of spiders in shallow subterranean habitats in the Czech Republic

Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2016
Spiders occurring in soils and fissured rocks were investigated using pipe traps. Four microphthalmic species, namely Hahnia microphthalma, Porrhomma egeria, P. microps and P. cambridgei were collected.
Růžička, Vlastimil, Dolanský, Jan
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The millipede genus Leucogeorgia Verhoeff, 1930 in the Caucasus, with descriptions of eleven new species, erection of a new monotypic genus and notes on the tribe Leucogeorgiini (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
The Caucasian leucogeorgiinine genera Archileucogeorgia Lohmander, 1936 and Leucogeorgia Verhoeff, 1930 are revised, with Leucogeorgia being considered as a senior subjective synonym of Archileucogeorgia, syn. nov. The following new combinations are thus
Dragan Ž. Antić, Hans S. Reip
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