A passage through India: the biotic ferry model supports the build-up of Indo-Australian biodiversity of an ancient soil arthropod clade
Maya Manivannan, Nehal Gurung, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Jahnavi Joshi
The paper reconstructs the biogeographic history of Scutigeromorpha, finding that in-situ diversification in the Peninsular Indian Plate and dispersal events explain the distribution of extant species, with a single dispersal event generating most of Australia's diversity.
Journal of Biogeography · Aug 23, 2024Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology