How Common are Sibling Species in Cave-Inhabiting Invertebrates?
Laing CD, Carmody GR, Peck SB. 1976. How Common are Sibling Species in Cave-Inhabiting Invertebrates?. The American Naturalist. 110(971):184-189
This study intended to document genetic variability in two geographically separated populations of the blind and white millipede, Scoterpes copei (Packard) (Chordeumida, Trichopetalidae) found in Whites Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park and from State Trooper Cave, 43 km to the southwest in the city of Bowling Green, KY. Materials and methods and results are given and discussed. In the course of this study the authors inadvertently discovered the apparent existance of sibling species in these two populations of millipede. The need for follow-up research is noted.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Laing, Cameron; Carmody, George; Peck, Stewart
- Units
- MACA
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Animals, Biogeography, Biology, Caves, Distribution, millipedes (Diplopoda), Observations, Scoterpes copei (millipede), State Trooper Cave Bowling Green KY, Taxonomy, White Cave Mammoth Cave National Park KY