Geographic patterning of variation in segment number in geophilomorph centipedes: clines and speciation.

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Since their origin as a metameric group, arthropods have diversified considerably in their number of segments. Present-day geophilomorph centipedes provide a model system for investigating the evolutionary origins of this diversification, because they exhibit intraspecific variation in segment number. (This variation is, however, derived; it is not a plesiomorphic condition within the Chilopoda.) Previous studies...

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