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List of works by Luis Espinasa

A Cavernicolous Species of the Genus Anelpistina (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Naj Tunich Cave, Petén, Guatemala

A New Blind Cave Fish Population of Genus Astyanax: Geography, Morphology and Behavior

A New Genus of the Subfamily Cubacubaninae (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Caves in South-Central and Southwestern USA

A New Species of Genus Anelpistina and the Second Described Nicoletiid (Zygentoma: Insecta) Species from the Mayan Ruins of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

article by Luis Espinasa et al published 2012 in ISRN zoology

A New Species ofAnelpistina(Nicoeltiidae: Zygentoma) from Sumidero Canyon National Park, in Chiapas, Mexico

A local duplication of the <i>Melanocortin receptor 1</i> locus in <i>Astyanax</i>.

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A new cave locality for Astyanax cavefish in Sierra de El Abra, Mexico

A new epigean species of the genus Anelpistina (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Sierra de El Abra, Taninul, Mexico

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

A new genus and species of nicoletiid silverfish (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) from caves of northern Alabama, USA

scientific article published on 23 May 2024

A new species of the genus Anelpistina (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Peru

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A new species of the genus Prosthecina (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae)

article published in 2000

A new species of the genusAnelpistina(Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

scholarly article by Luis Espinasa & Janet Mathes published September 2014 in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

A new species ofAnelpistina(Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from the rainforest of Selva Lacandona, Mexico

scholarly article by Luis Espinasa & Kimberly Socci published October 2014 in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

A new troglobitic species of Anelpistina (Hexapoda: Zygenyoma: Nicoletiidae) from Yextla cave, Guerrero, México

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 121 no. 3, October 2008

A troglobitic amphipod in the Ice Caves of the Shawangunk Ridge: Behavior and resistance to freezing

scholarly article

Cave dwelling Onychophora from a Lava Tube in the Galapagos

Cavefish dorsoventral axis angle during wall swimming: laterality asymmetry

scientific article published in 2024

Cenozoic colonization of the Lesser Antilles by Nicoletiid insects (Zygentoma, “Apterygota”) and a new species of Anelpistina from Mustique Island

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 122 no. 4, December 2009

Comparing growth in surface and cave morphs of the species Astyanax mexicanus: insights from scales.

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Conservation of retinal circadian rhythms during cavefish eye degeneration

scientific article published in January 2006

Contrasting feeding habits of post-larval and adult Astyanax cavefish

scholarly article

DNA barcoding and integrative taxonomy of the Heterolepisma sclerophylla species complex (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae: Heterolepismatinae) and the description of two new species

Development and evolution of craniofacial patterning is mediated by eye-dependent and -independent processes in the cavefish Astyanax

scientific article published in September 2003

Developmental evolution and developmental plasticity of the olfactory epithelium and olfactory skills in Mexican cavefish

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Differences in chemosensory response between eyed and eyeless Astyanax mexicanus of the Rio Subterráneo cave

scientific article

Distribution and conservation status of Speleonycta ozarkensis (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) from caves of the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA

scholarly article

Enhanced prey capture skills in Astyanax cavefish larvae are independent from eye loss

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Incipient regressive evolution of the circadian rhythms of a cave amphipod

scholarly article

Mc1r gene in Astroblepus pholeter and Astyanax mexicanus: Convergent regressive evolution of pigmentation across cavefish species

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New Genus Allocation for the Cavernicole Nicoletiids (Insecta: Zygentoma) of Aruba And Description of Their Previously Unknown Males

Non-optical releasers for aggressive behavior in blind and blinded Astyanax (Teleostei, Characidae).

scientific article published in September 2005

Phylogeny of the American silverfish Cubacubaninae (Hexapoda: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae): a combined approach using morphology and five molecular loci

scholarly article by Luis Espinasa et al published February 2007 in Cladistics

Phylogeographical convergence between Astyanax cavefish and mysid shrimps in the Sierra de El Abra, Mexico

scholarly article

Revision of genus Texoreddellia Wygodzinsky, 1973 (Hexapoda, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae), a prominent element of the cave-adapted fauna of Texas

scientific article

The Genus Anelpistina (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) in Puerto Rico, with the Description of a New Species

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

The first phylogenetic analysis of Palpigradi (Arachnida) – the most enigmatic arthropod order

scholarly article by Gonzalo Giribet et al published 2014 in Invertebrate Systematics

The role of gene flow in rapid and repeated evolution of cave related traits in Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus

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Troglomorphic features of Astroblepus pholeter, a cavefish from Ecuador, and possible introgressive hybridization

scholarly article

Two new nicoletiid species (Insecta: Zygentoma) from the Yucatan Peninsula, México

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Vibration Attraction Response (VAB) is a plastic trait in Blind Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), variable within subpopulations inhabiting the same cave

scientific article published on 12 October 2020