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Record W4416443263 · doi:10.5376/be.2025.15.0004

Tracing the Evolutionary Origins and Dispersal Pathways of African Terrestrial Snails: Integrating Phylogeography and Fossil Records

2025· article· W4416443263 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Evidence · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicMollusks and Parasites Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhylogeographyBiological dispersalLineage (genetic)Ecological nicheAdaptation (eye)PopulationClimate changeFragmentation (computing)Niche

Abstract

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African terrestrial snails show significant characteristics in terms of evolutionary adaptation and ecological diversity, and their population diversity, genetic structure and distribution pattern are affected by multiple factors such as paleoclimatic change, geological evolution and geographical barriers. This study focuses on the evolutionary origin and diffusion paths of terrestrial snails in Africa, integrates phylogenetic methods and fossil record data, and analyzes molecular phylogenetic, lineage differentiation and niche evolution of representative genera such as Gittenodouardia  and Cornu aspersum . Studies have pointed out that climate fluctuations and ecological fragmentation since the Pliocene have significantly promoted the lineage differentiation of multiple spiral genera, while plateaus, river valleys and climate zones constitute diffusion barriers or corridors. Through a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial DNA, nuclear DNA and paleoecological models, this study not only clarifies the spatiotemporal evolution process of the main lineages, but also provides a new perspective for understanding the adaptation mechanism and diffusion history of African snails.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.226
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it