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First insights into the role of evolutionary history in shaping venom composition of Vipera ammodytes

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  First insights into the role of evolutionary history in shaping venom composition of Vipera ammodytes Abstract Understanding intraspecific venom variation requires distinguishing the contributions of neutral population history from natural selection. This study aims to determine whether venom variation in the Vipera ammodytes species complex is structured across eight phylogenetic lineages. Despite a complex evolutionary history, venom composition did not differ among phylogenetic units within the analytical framework used, suggesting that shared ancestry alone does not explain venom variation. Whether local adaptation to environmental conditions explains the observed variation remains an open question for future studies. Lakušić, M., Piccoli, C., Anđelković, M., Andonov, K., Burić, I., Brito, J. C., Dyugmedzhiev, A., Merdan, S., Schmid, L., Tzoras, E., Florian-Hempel, B., & Martínez-Freiría, F. (2026). First insights into the role of evolutionary history in shaping venom co...

A NEW SPECIES OF HAHNIA (ARANEAE, HAHNIIDAE) FROM BULGARIA AND CRIMEAN PENINSULA CLOSE TO H. NAVA

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A new six-eyed species of the spider genus Alistra Thorell, 1894 from Guangdong, China (Araneae: Hahniidae)

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Diversity of spiders in Daba Mountain National Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China (II): Two new species of Hahniidae (Arachnida, Araneae)

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Two new species of the genus Neoantistea (Araneae: Hahniidae) from Northeast of Chongqing, China

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A new species of Neoantistea Gertsch, 1934 from Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China (Araneae, Hahniidae)

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Systematics of the colour-polymorphic spider genus Cybaeolus, with comments on the phylogeny of the family Hahniidae (Araneae)

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A new genus and three new species of Hahniidae (Araneae) from China

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