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Record W4416443298 · doi:10.5376/be.2025.15.0016

Reconstructing the Global Spread of African Terrestrial Snails: Phylogenomic and Ecological Evidence

2025· article· W4416443298 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
KeywordsNicheNiche constructionAdaptabilityPhylogenetic treePopulationEcological nicheClimate changeInvasive speciesAgricultureIntroduced species

Abstract

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African terrestrial snails, especially the invasive species of the genus Achatina , have brought significant ecological and agricultural problems to the world. This study presents some new advancements in phylogenetic genomics, population genetics, and niche modeling, reconstructs the evolutionary process and diffusion pathways of African terrestrial snails, summarizes their origin in Africa, the differentiation trends of their populations, and also explains how they spread to Asia, Europe, and America through natural diffusion and human activities. This study combined genomic data and climate information to analyze the adaptability and invasion mechanism of this type of snail. This study hopes to provide theoretical support and research ideas for understanding the evolutionary background and environmental influencing factors of African terrestrial snails, as well as how to prevent and control their spread.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.120
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.000
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 head0.119
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.201 · 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