Joanna M Wolfe, Lauren Ballou, Javier Luque, Victoria M Watson-Zink, Shane T Ahyong, Joëlle Barido-Sottani, Tin-Yam Chan, Ka Hou Chu, Keith A Crandall, Savel R Daniels, Darryl L Felder, Harrison Mancke, Joel W Martin, Peter K L Ng, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Emma Palacios Theil, N Dean Pentcheff, Rafael Robles, Brent P Thoma, Ling Ming Tsang, Regina Wetzer, Amanda M Windsor, Heather D Bracken-Grissom
For much of terrestrial biodiversity, the evolutionary pathways of adaptation from marine ancestors are poorly understood, and have usually been viewed as a binary trait. True crabs, the decapod crustacean infraorder Brachyura, comprise over 7,600 species representing a striking diversity of morphology and ecology, including repeated adaptation to non-marine habitats. Here, we reconstruct the evolutionary history of Brachyura using new and published sequences of 10 genes for 344 tips spanning 88 of 109 brachyuran families...
November 6, 2023: Systematic Biology