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References from Modularity underlies the morphological evolution of Appalachian salamanders. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Evaluating modularity in morphometric data: Challenges with the RV coefficient and a new test measure
10.1111/2041-210x.12511 · 2016 · External reference
Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?
10.1098/rspb.2009.0543 · 2009 · External reference
Comparing the strength of modular signal, and evaluating alternative modular hypotheses, using covariance ratio effect sizes with morphometric data
10.1111/evo.13867 · 2019 · External reference
geomorph: Geometric morphometric analyses of 2D and 3D landmark data
2024 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2026 · External reference
Macroevolution of arboreality in salamanders
10.1002/ece3.5267 · 2019 · External reference
Macroevolution of desiccation-related morphology in plethodontid salamanders as inferred from a novel surface area to volume ratio estimation approach
10.1111/evo.13898 · 2020 · External reference
Clinging ability is related to particular aspects of foot morphology in salamanders
10.1002/ece3.7888 · 2021 · External reference
Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium
10.1111/evo.13984 · 2020 · External reference
Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull
10.1186/s12862-018-1342-7 · 2019 · External reference
Biogeography, phylogeny, and morphological evolution of central Texas cave and spring salamanders
10.1186/1471-2148-13-201 · 2013 · External reference
Ecological radiation with limited morphological diversification in salamanders
10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02458.x · 2012 · External reference
Adaptive radiation without independent stages of trait evolution in a group of Caribbean anoles
10.1093/sysbio/syae041 · 2024 · External reference
Evidence for complex life cycle constraints on salamander body form diversification
10.1073/pnas.1703877114 · 2017 · External reference
Redescription of the plethodontid salamander Bolitoglossa lignicolor (Peters), with remarks on the status of B. palustris Taylor
1963 · External reference
Effectiveness of antipredator secretions and behavior of selected salamanders against shrews
10.2307/1443413 · 1979 · External reference
The function of the naso-labial groove of plethodontid salamanders
10.1086/physzool.39.4.30152358 · 1966 · External reference
Reproductive biology of the mud salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, in western South Carolina
10.2307/1442416 · 1975 · External reference
Upstream and downstream movements of Eurycea bislineata and other salamanders in a southern Appalachian stream
1986 · External reference
Life-history perspective of adaptive radiation in desmognathine salamanders
10.2307/1447639 · 1996 · External reference
Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders
10.1093/evolut/qpaf253 · 2026 · External reference
Pelagic zone is an evolutionary catalyst, but an ecological dead end, for North American minnows
10.1093/evolut/qpae062 · 2024 · External reference
Salamander populations and biomass in the Hubbard Brook experimental forest, New Hampshire
10.2307/1443655 · 1975 · External reference
A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States
10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00593.x · 2009 · External reference
Hidden in plain sight: cryptic diversity in the Plethodontidae
10.1643/ot-14-150 · 2016 · External reference
Haideotriton wallacei, a new subterranean salamander from Georgia
1939 · External reference
Morphological variation among species and populations of salamanders in the Plethodon glutinosus complex
1996 · External reference
Fossil plethodontid salamanders from the latest Miocene of California
10.2307/1564418 · 1985 · External reference
The fauna of Nickajack Cave
10.1086/272948 · 1881 · External reference
On the ecological roles of salamanders
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.112202.130116 · 2004 · External reference
A peculiar mechanism of bite-force enhancement in lungless salamanders revealed by a new geometric method for modeling muscle movements
2017 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2000 · External reference
The status of the Red Hills salamander Phaeognathus hubrichti, Alabama, USA, 1976–1988
10.1016/0006-3207(91)90005-t · 1991 · External reference
Large-scale diversification of skull shape in domestic dogs: Disparity and modularity
10.1086/650372 · 2010 · External reference
Topological and variational modularity: A case study using the pectoral girdle across the Chrosomus eos-neogaeus hybridization complex
2025 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1926 · External reference
Ecological contributions to body shape evolution in salamanders of the genus Eurycea (Plethodontidae)
10.1371/journal.pone.0216754 · 2019 · External reference
Integration drives rapid phenotypic evolution in flatfishes
10.1073/pnas.2101330118 · 2021 · External reference
Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders
10.1038/s41559-020-1225-3 · 2020 · External reference
A fly in a tube: macroevolutionary expectations for integrated phenotypes
10.1111/evo.13608 · 2018 · External reference
Exercising with and without lungs: I. the effects of metabolic cost, maximal oxygen transport and body size on terrestrial locomotion in salamander species
10.1242/jeb.138.1.471 · 1988 · External reference
Locomotor modules and the evolution of avian flight
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb04496.x · 1996 · External reference
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous
10.1038/s41559-022-01801-3 · 2022 · External reference
Phylogenetic insights on adaptive radiation
10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173447 · 2010 · External reference
EMMLi: A maximum likelihood approach to the analysis of modularity
10.1111/evo.12956 · 2016 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1987 · External reference
Rapid phenotypic change in a polymorphic salamander over 43 years
10.1038/s41598-021-02124-2 · 2021 · External reference
GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm538 · 2008 · External reference
Key evolutionary innovations and their ecological mechanisms
10.1080/10292389509380518 · 1995 · External reference
A new genus of lungless salamander from the coastal plains of Alabama
10.2307/1440175 · 1961 · External reference
Speciation in the eastern North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon
10.1146/annurev.es.26.110195.003051 · 1995 · External reference
Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes
10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.018 · 2012 · External reference
Survey of salamanders in Mississippi limestone caves
10.1656/1528-7092(2004)003%5b0241:sosiml%5d2.0.co;2 · 2004 · External reference
RevBayes: Bayesian phylogenetic inference using graphical models and an interactive model-specification language
10.1093/sysbio/syw021 · 2016 · External reference
Role of the skin in reproduction and behaviour
1994 · External reference
Key innovations and the ecology of macroevolution
1998 · External reference
Lessons from the past: evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions
10.1073/pnas.101092598 · 2001 · External reference
What drives variation in plethodontid salamander species richness over space and time?
10.1655/herpetologica-d-16-00085.1 · 2017 · External reference
Gene lineages and eastern North American palaeodrainage basins: Phylogeography and speciation in salamanders of the Eurycea bislineata species complex
10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02757.x · 2006 · External reference
Phylogenetic analysis of ecomorphological divergence, community structure, and diversification rates in dusky salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus)
10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01069.x · 2005 · External reference
Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: Phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodontidae: Plethodon)
10.1098/rspb.2005.3326 · 2006 · External reference
Niche conservatism drives elevational diversity patterns in Appalachian salamanders
10.1086/653031 · 2010 · External reference
Resource allocation, coexistence, and the niche structure of a streambank salamander community
10.2307/1942512 · 1979 · External reference
Modularity promotes morphological divergence in ray-finned fishes
10.1038/s41598-018-25715-y · 2018 · External reference
The evolution of form and function: morphology and locomotor performance in West Indian Anolis lizards
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1990.tb05225.x · 1990 · External reference
Phenology, migrations, circadian rhythm and the effect of precipitation of the activity of Eurycea b. bislineata in Québec
1975 · External reference
Molecular systematics of Plethodon and Aneides (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Plethodontini): phylogenetic analysis of an old and rapid radiation
10.1006/mpev.2000.0880 · 2001 · External reference
The evolution of modularity in the mammalian skull ii: Evolutionary consequences
10.1007/s11692-009-9051-1 · 2009 · External reference
Critical tail autotomy for reduction of maximal swimming performance in a plethodontid salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus)
10.1670/12-011r · 2013 · External reference
A bayesian approach for inferring the impact of a discrete character on rates of continuous-character evolution in the presence of background-rate variation
10.1093/sysbio/syz069 · 2020 · External reference
Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPG extinction on mammal diversification
10.1126/science.1211028 · 2011 · External reference
Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander
10.1038/nature03474 · 2005 · External reference
10.1093/evolut/qpag144 · Admitted local publication
Feeding in frogs
10.1016/b978-012632590-4/50006-x · 2000 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1999 · External reference
Extreme morphological and ecological homoplasy in tropical salamanders
10.1073/pnas.131203598 · 2001 · External reference
Ecology and management of riparian habitats for amphibians and reptiles
2000 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1998 · External reference
Time, space, and life history
10.1007/978-1-4615-7007-3 · 1996 · External reference
Size variation, growth strategies, and the evolution of modularity in the mammalian skull
10.1111/evo.12177 · 2013 · External reference
Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus ocoee), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains
10.11646/zootaxa.5190.2.3 · 2022 · External reference
Nomenclatural solutions for diagnosing “cryptic’species using molecular and morphological data facilitate a taxonomic revision of the Black-bellied Salamanders (Urodela, Desmognathus ‘quadramaculatus’) from the southern Appalachian Mountains
10.11646/bionomina.27.1.1 · 2022 · External reference
A new, narrowly endemic species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi and Alabama
10.11646/zootaxa.5133.1.3 · 2022 · External reference
Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation
10.1038/ncomms2958 · 2013 · External reference
R: A language and environment for statistical computing
10.32614/r.manuals · 2026 · External reference
Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2010.00044.x · 2010 · External reference
phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00169.x · 2012 · External reference
Trade-offs between water loss and gas exchange influence habitat suitability of a woodland salamander
10.1111/1365-2435.13030 · 2018 · External reference
Oviposition, early development, and growth of the cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga: Surface and subterranean influences on a troglophilic species
10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63%5b258:oedago%5d2.0.co;2 · 2007 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2000 · External reference
Roles for modularity and constraint in the evolution of cranial diversity among Anolis lizards
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01519.x · 2012 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2004 · External reference
Prey processing in Leurognathus marmoratus and the evolution of form and function in desmognathine salamanders (Plethodontidae)
10.1006/bijl.1993.1027 · 1993 · External reference
The consequences of metamorphosis on salamander (Ambystoma) locomotor performance
10.1086/physzool.64.1.30158520 · 1991 · External reference
Genetic divergence correlates with the contemporary landscape in populations of slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) species complex across the lower Piedmont and Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States
10.1139/cjz-2018-0050 · 2018 · External reference
Lungless salamanders—Plethodontidae
2008 · External reference
A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes
10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108272 · 2025 · External reference
Tip rates, phylogenies and diversification: what are we estimating, and how good are the estimates?
10.1111/2041-210x.13153 · 2019 · External reference
Parallel sensory compensation following independent subterranean colonization by groundwater salamanders (Eurycea)
10.1073/pnas.2504850122 · 2025 · External reference
Morphological variation, modularity and integration in the scapula and humerus of Lissotriton newts
10.1111/joa.14030 · 2024 · External reference
A fossil plethodontid salamander from the Middle Miocene of Slovakia (Caudata, Plethodontidae)
10.1163/156853805774408586 · 2005 · External reference
Forbidden phenotypes and the limits of evolution
10.1098/rsfs.2015.0028 · 2015 · External reference
Homologues, natural kinds and the evolution of modularity
10.1093/icb/36.1.36 · 1996 · External reference
Perspective: complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02339.x · 1996 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1994 · External reference
Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family Plethodontidae
1966 · External reference
Functional morphology and evolution of tail autonomy in salamanders
10.1002/jmor.1051220402 · 1967 · External reference
Direct development in the lungless salamanders: What are the consequences for developmental biology, evolution and phylogenesis?
10.1387/ijdb.8877460 · 1996 · External reference
On the problem of stasis in organismal evolution
10.1016/0022-5193(83)90335-1 · 1983 · External reference
Developmental life history is associated with variation in rates of climatic niche evolution in a salamander adaptive radiation
10.1111/evo.13949 · 2020 · External reference
Varieties of modules: kinds, levels, origins, and behaviors
10.1002/jez.1064 · 2001 · External reference
Ecological opportunity, historical biogeography and diversification in a major lineage of salamanders
10.1111/jbi.12931 · 2017 · External reference
What does modularity mean?
10.1111/ede.12390 · 2021 · External reference
Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA
10.4311/2019lsc0125 · 2020 · External reference
