Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water
Published July 2, 2009 by EurekAlert!
(National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) Researchers from the National Oceanography Center, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years’ worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant — the king crab. The results, published this week in the Journal of Biogeography, reveal temperature as a driving force behind the speciation and radiation of a major seafloor predator — globally, and over tens of millions of years of Earth’s history.
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