Cryptic Diversity in Animals at Genetical, Morphological, and Ecological Levels
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chromosomes; evolution; genomics; mammals and other vertebrates; molecular ecology; molecular markers; phylogenetics; phylogeography, theoretical and experimental population genetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diversity is a fundamental phenomenon derived from life. In fact, natural selection, and therefore biological evolution, only can occur if there is diversity and variation in living beings. Often, this diversity is hidden from the eyes of humans. Nevertheless, studies of 3D geometric morphometry, together with detailed molecular studies of DNA, proteins, and chromosomes, as well as the study of food and relational species networks in different ecological environments, show a substantially greater complexity and diversity than has traditionally been maintained by many researchers. Therefore, this hidden diversity can occur at different organizational levels, whether at the molecular, morphological, population, taxonomic, or ecological levels. This Special Issue will show new research that reveals a higher level of complexity and diversity in different species of animals at all these structural levels. Thus, I invite you to participle in this Special Issue to show your studies on whatever level of biological diversity you are an expert in for the species of animals you that study.
Dr. Manuel Ruiz-García
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animals
- chromosomal diversity
- DNA diversity
- protein diversity
- morphological and morphometry diversity
- taxonomy diversity
- ecological diversity
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