The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)
Gustavo Silva de Miranda, Siddharth Kulkarni, Jéssica Tagliatela, Caitlin M. Baker, Alessandro P.L. Giupponi, Facundo M. Labarque, Efrat Gavish‐Regev, Michael Gordon Rix, Leonardo Sousa Carvalho, Lívia Maria Fusari, Mark Stephen Harvey, Hannah Marie Wood, Prashant P. Sharma
The paper describes the discovery of a new species of Paleoamblypygi and uses it to generate the first molecular phylogeny of whip spiders, showing the importance of relict taxa in divergence time estimation.
Systematic Biology · May 1, 2024Peer-reviewedGenomics