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Morphological Adaptation of Cave-Dwelling Ground Beetles in China Revealed by Geometric Morphometry (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini).

Mengzhen Chen, Wanru Guo, Sunbin Huang, Xiaozhu Luo, Mingyi Tian, Weixin Liu

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Mengzhen ChenDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.
Wanru GuoDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.
Sunbin HuangDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8357-6651
Xiaozhu LuoDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.
Mingyi TianDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.
Weixin LiuDepartment of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9122-8868

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 41871039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cave-dwelling ground beetles in China represent the most impressive specific diversity and morphological adaptations of the cavernicolous ground beetles in the world, but they have not been systematically examined in quantitative terms. The present study focuses on the application of geometric morphological methods to address the morphological adaptations of the tribe Trechini, the most representative group in China. We have employed a geometric morphometry analysis of the head, pronotum, and elytra of 53 genera of Trechini, including 132 hypogean and 8 epigean species. Our results showed that the overall morphological variation of cave carabids has gradually specialized from an anophthalmic to semi-aphaenopsian to aphaenopsian type. There were extremely significant differences (

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adaptive typecave environmentmorphological variationphenotypic development

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PMID34821802
PMCPMC8623905

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