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References from The impact of climate and habitat on body shape and size evolution in charontid whip spiders. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
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10.1111/2041-210x.13723 · 2021 · External reference
Recent speciation and phenotypic plasticity within a parthenogenetic lineage of levantine whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi: Charinidae)
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10.1002/ece3.8233 · 2021 · External reference
The Vitruvian spider: Segmenting and integrating over different body parts to describe ecophenotypic variation
10.1002/jmor.21516 · 2022 · External reference
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A general model for estimating macroevolutionary landscapes
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The grass was greener: Repeated evolution of specialized morphologies and habitat shifts in ghost spiders following grassland expansion in South America
2019 · External reference
Log-shape ratios, procrustes superimposition, elliptic fourier analysis: Three worked examples in R
2013 · External reference
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10.1111/2041-210x.12420 · 2015 · External reference
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A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies
10.1111/bij.12701 · 2016 · External reference
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10.1093/oso/9780198820765.001.0001
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10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa101 · 2022 · External reference
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10.1093/sysbio/syae021 · 2024 · External reference
Microhabitat use by the whip spider Heterophrynus longicornis (Amblypygi, Phrynidae) in central Amazonia
10.1636/st05-82.1 · 2006 · External reference
Spider diversification through space and time
10.1146/annurev-ento-061520-083414 · 2021 · External reference
Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7
10.1093/molbev/mss075 · 2012 · External reference
Body size–climate relationships of European spiders
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02216.x · 2010 · External reference
Islands within islands: Diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi, Phrynus) in Caribbean caves
10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.005 · 2015 · External reference
Shaped by the Sun: The effect of exposure to sunlight on the evolution of spider bodies
10.1098/rsbl.2021.0369 · 2021 · External reference
Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders
10.1038/s41598-018-28796-x · 2018 · External reference
WorldClim 2: New 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas
10.1002/joc.5086 · 2017 · External reference
Topographic depressions can provide climate and resource microrefugia for biodiversity
10.1016/j.isci.2023.108202 · 2023 · External reference
The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders
10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1 · 2017 · External reference
Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa
10.1093/jhered/esz064 · 2020 · External reference
MorphoInd: Simpsons LSI and Uerpmanns VSI
2020 · External reference
Evidence of body size and shape stasis driven by selection in Patagonian lizards of the Phymaturus patagonicus clade (Squamata: Liolaemini)
2018 · External reference
General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: Phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters
10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01915.x · 2010 · External reference
Multi-response phylogenetic mixed models: Concepts and application
10.1111/brv.70001 · 2025 · External reference
Stabilizing selection and the comparative analysis of adaptation
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01457.x · 1997 · External reference
Translating between microevolutionary process and macroevolutionary patterns: The correlation structure of interspecific data
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03914.x · 1996 · External reference
The fossil record of whip spiders: The past of Amblypygi
10.1007/s12542-021-00552-z · 2021 · External reference
Speciational history in a diverse clade of habitat-specialized spiders (Araneae: Nesticidae: Nesticus): Inferences from geographic-based sampling
1997 · External reference
Cope’s rule in the evolution of marine animals
10.1126/science.1260065 · 2015 · External reference
Macroecology of ground beetles: Species richness, range size and body size show different geographical patterns across a climatically heterogeneous area
10.1111/jbi.13693 · 2019 · External reference
Seasonal body size reductions with warming covary with major body size gradients in arthropod species
10.1098/rspb.2017.0238 · 2017 · External reference
High-stress subterranean habitats and evolutionary change in cave-inhabiting arthropods
10.1086/285523 · 1993 · External reference
Rapid evolution of troglomorphic characters suggests selection rather than neutral mutation as a driver of eye reduction in cave crabs
10.1098/rsbl.2012.1098 · 2013 · External reference
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10.1093/icb/ict075 · 2013 · External reference
Phenotypic crypticity in rock-dwelling Pristurus geckos (Sphaerodactylidae)
10.1093/evolut/qpag062 · 2026 · External reference
Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction
10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.005 · 2021 · External reference
Convergent evolution of unique morphological adaptations to a subterranean environment in cave millipedes (Diplopoda)
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Ecological opportunity and the rate of morphological evolution in the diversification of Greater Antillean anoles
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01026.x · 2010 · External reference
Spiders in caves
10.1098/rspb.2017.0193 · 2017 · External reference
10.1093/evolut/qpag138 · Admitted local publication
Global patterns of sexual dimorphism in Amblypygi
10.1016/j.jcz.2018.02.005 · 2018 · External reference
Assessing the patterns and drivers of shape complexity in the Amblypygid pedipalp
10.1002/ece3.7882 · 2021 · External reference
The kinematics of amblypygid (Arachnida) pedipalps during predation: extreme elongation in raptorial appendages does not result in a proportionate increase in reach and closing speed
10.1242/jeb.246654 · 2024 · External reference
Sexual dimorphism in the Arachnid orders
10.7717/peerj.5751 · 2018 · External reference
Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi)
10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 · 2021 · External reference
Greater topoclimatic control of above- versus below-ground communities
10.1111/gcb.15330 · 2020 · External reference
Size allometry: Size and shape variables with characterizations of the lognormal and generalized gamma distributions
10.1080/01621459.1970.10481136 · 1970 · External reference
geiger v2.0: An expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu181 · 2014 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1986 · External reference
CODA: Convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC
2006 · External reference
Estimating the integrated likelihood via posterior simulation using the harmonic mean identity
10.1093/oso/9780199214655.001.0001 · 2007 · External reference
Body size of terrestrial arthropods and biomass of their populations in relation to the abiotic parameters of their milieu
10.1007/bf00378789 · 1981 · External reference
Understanding specialism when the jack of all trades can be the master of all
10.1098/rspb.2012.1990 · 2012 · External reference
Allometry and sexual dimorphism in three giant whip spider species (Amblypygi, Phrynidae, Heterophrynus)
10.1139/cjz-2022-0066 · 2023 · External reference
Variations in the carapace shape of whip spiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi)
10.1002/jmor.21485 · 2022 · External reference
Cryptic diversity within three South American whip spider species (Arachnida, Amblypygi)
10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.068 · 2020 · External reference
Testing a hypothesis that phylogenetic signal is different from 1.0
2014 · External reference
phytools 2.0: An updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)
10.7717/peerj.16505 · 2024 · External reference
Microhabitats reduce animal’s exposure to climate extremes
10.1111/gcb.12439 · 2014 · External reference
Habitat choice and temporal variation alter the balance between adaptation by genetic differentiation, a jack-of-all-trades strategy, and phenotypic plasticity
2016 · External reference
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice
10.1111/evo.14355 · 2022 · External reference
Adaptation to a limiting environment: The phosphorus content of terrestrial cave arthropods
10.1007/s11284-009-0686-2 · 2010 · External reference
Defenses of a Neotropical harvestman against different levels of threat by the predator Charinus sp. (Amblypygi)
2018 · External reference
Morphometry of the pedipalp patella provides new characters for species-level taxonomy in whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi): A test case with description of a new species of Phrynus
10.1016/j.jcz.2022.02.004 · 2022 · External reference
The continuity of microevolution and macroevolution
10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00437.x · 2002 · External reference
Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01723.x · 2012 · External reference
RAxML version 8: A tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu033 · 2014 · External reference
An explanation for Cope’s rule
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1973.tb05912.x · 1973 · External reference
Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiation
10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-121415-032254 · 2016 · External reference
Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild
10.1073/pnas.2222071120 · 2023 · External reference
Metabolic rate in the whip-spider, Damon annulatipes (Arachnida: Amblypygi)
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.04.010 · 2004 · External reference
Ecological classification of subterranean organisms
10.1016/b978-0-12-383832-2.00035-9 · 2012 · External reference
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10.3897/subtbiol.22.9759 · 2017 · External reference
Ecomorphological convergence of cave communities
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01734.x · 2012 · External reference
Comparative analysis of principal components can be misleading
10.1093/sysbio/syv019 · 2015 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2022 · External reference
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10.1163/9789004473539 · 2000 · External reference
Mitochondrial DNA sequencing reveals extreme genetic differentiation in a cryptic species complex of neotropical pseudoscorpions
10.1006/mpev.1996.0388 · 1997 · External reference
Whip spiders (Amblypygi) become water-repellent by a colloidal secretion that self-assembles into hierarchical microstructures
10.1186/s40851-016-0059-y · 2016 · External reference
Functional anatomy of the pretarsus in whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi)
10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.014 · 2015 · External reference
Stabilized morphological evolution of spiders despite mosaic changes in foraging ecology
10.1093/sysbio/syac023 · 2022 · External reference
Stasis of functionally versatile specialists
10.1111/evo.13956 · 2020 · External reference
A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2009.00001.x · 2010 · External reference