The Vitruvian spider: Segmenting and integrating over different body parts to describe ecophenotypic variation.

ABSTRACT: Understanding what drives the existing phenotypic variability has been a major topic of interest for biologists for generations. However, the study of the phenotype may not be straightforward. Indeed, organisms may be interpreted as composite objects, comprising different ecophenotypic traits, which are neither necessarily independent from each other nor do they respond to the same evolutionary pressures. For this reason, a deep biological understanding of the focal organism is essential for any morphological analysis. The spider genus Dysdera provides a particularly well-suited system for setting up protocols for morphological analyses that encompass a suit of morphological structures in any nonmodel system. This genus has undergone a remarkable diversification in the Canary Islands, wher

SUBMITTER: Bellvert A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9828460 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature