Land-loving crabs

Amanda Tromans

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6683, 305-305

Abstract: The nine species of land crab in Jamaica are adapted extraordinarily well to terrestrial life. They vary considerably, however, according to their particular habitat. A phylogenetic analysis of sequences from two mitochondrial genes now shows that all the species had a common marine ancestor. Moreover, in evolutionary terms, it seems that the current diversity has arisen very quickly —that is, within the past four million years or so.

Date: 1998
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