Revista de Biología Tropical ISSN Impreso: 0034-7744 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2075

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Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Onychophora

Published January 21, 2019
Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Onychophora

ONYCHOPHORA: THE VELVET WORMS

In the last 500 million years, Onychophorans have survived all mass extinctions. Why did they succeed where the mighty dinosaurs failed?

This column is open to evolutionary analyses of these extraordinary worms.

Onychophora Gerardo Avalos
Julián Monge-Nájera
Darwin
Retro fashion: did onychophorans abandon ovoviviparity and revert to laying eggs?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Two ways to be a velvet worm
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Why do onychophorans and camels need the same gestation time?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
The persistent embrace of onychophorans: What determines copulation duration in velvet worms?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Why do velvet worm spermatozoa swim for years?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Why do some Australian onychophorans have fantastic heads?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
What do we really know about how velvet worms mate?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Are the eggs - kept and fed by the mother - the ancestral form of reproduction in onychophorans?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
Why are there no onychophorans in Cuba?
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Julián Monge
Darwin
"I, astonished, discovered by chance the only specimen”: the first velvet worm (Onychophora)
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