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The biogeography of two cave spiders showing a different degree of troglomorphism (i.e. adaptation to the hypogean life).

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Our findings show that the degrees of adaptation to the subterranean life is directly linked to the dispersal ability of the single species. Moreover, we found that past glacial dynamics strongly influenced present-day population structure.

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This page is a summary of: Alpine endemic spiders shed light on the origin and evolution of subterranean species, PeerJ, November 2015, PeerJ,
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1384.
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