Radiating pain: venom has contributed to the diversification of the largest radiations of vertebrate and invertebrate animals

Abstract Background Understanding drivers of animal biodiversity has been a longstanding aim in evolutionary biology. Insects and fishes represent the largest lineages of invertebrates and vertebrates respectively, and consequently many ideas have been proposed to explain this diversity. Natural ene...

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Main Authors: Kevin Arbuckle, Richard J. Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-08-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01880-z