Adaptive Radiation and Convergent Evolution in African Terrestrial Snails Phylogenomic and Morphological Evidence
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Abstract
The African land snail is a good example of how environmental diversity and evolutionary processes affect biodiversity. In this review, we summarize recent research on the phylogenetic genome and morphology, primarily to explore how different snail lineages undergo adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. We analyzed genomic data and shell morphology data together to understand how the complex terrain, climate change, and various habitats in Africa drive rapid evolutionary differentiation of these snails in mountainous forests, savannas, isolated hills, and other environments. These places have different ecological conditions, which have given snails many opportunities for evolution. We also specifically mentioned some examples of morphological convergence. In these examples, although snail lineages are different, they will evolve very similar shell types and ecological characteristics when facing similar environmental pressures. That is to say, they have made similar adaptive responses in their respective environments. Among them, we also specifically analyzed the evolutionary process of the Tropidophora group. This example demonstrates how the diversity of phylogenetic genomic data and shell shape changes interact with each other, especially in different ecological environments where the changes are most pronounced. These studies indicate that in order to truly understand the evolutionary history of these snails, we must combine molecular (genetic) and morphological (morphological) methods. We also hope that this review can provide a framework and methodology for future research. At the same time, we would like to emphasize that when protecting the rapidly disappearing snail habitats in Africa, we cannot only focus on ecology, but also consider their unique evolutionary history behind them.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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