Abstract Waterfleas (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) are among the most successful
invertebrates in current freshwater ecosystems, occupying a wide range of niches …

Temporary lentic wetlands are becoming increasingly recognised for their collective role in
contributing to biodiversity at the landscape scale. In southern Africa, a region with a high …

Biologists would be mistaken if they relegated living fossils to paleontological inquiry or
assumed that the concept is dead. It is now used to describe entities ranging from viruses to …

Inversions of the origin of replication (ORI) in mitochondrial genomes produce asymmetrical
mutational pressures that can cause strong base composition skews. Due to skews often …

A conceptual model for anostracan biogeography based on the “Monopolisation
Hypothesis” and the “Theory of Island Biogeography” is discussed and presented. In this …

The class Branchiopoda, whose origin dates back to Cambrian, includes~ 1200 species
which mainly occupy freshwater habitats. The phylogeny and systematics of the class have …

Spinicaudata (spiny clam shrimp) is a taxon of Branchiopoda occurring since the Devonian
and today it occurs nearly globally in temporary water bodies. We present the most species …

We used a combined analysis of one nuclear (28S rDNA) and three mitochondrial markers
(COI, 12S rDNA, 16S rDNA) to infer the molecular phylogeny of the Notostraca, represented …

The fossil record provides an invaluable insight into the temporal origins of extant lineages
of organisms. However, establishing the relationships between fossils and extant lineages …

Cyclestheria hislopi is thought to be the only extant species of Cyclestherida. It is the sister
taxon of all Cladocera and displays morphological characteristics intermediate of …