The extraordinary diversity in molluscan body plans, and the genomic mechanisms that
enable it, remains one of the great questions of evolution. The eight distinct living taxonomic …

Deep-sea chemosynthetic communities, including hydrothermal vents and cold seeps,
harbour hundreds of endemic species currently threatened by deep-sea mining and …

Mollusca is the second-largest animal phylum with over 100,000 extant species
representing eight classes. Across 1000 extant species in the class Polyplacophora, chitons …

Abstract The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis L.) is a bivalve naturally distributed across
Europe, which was an integral part of human diets for centuries, until anthropogenic …

Bivalve molluscs comprise 20,000 species occupying a wide diversity of marine habitats. As
filter feeders and detritivores they act as ecosystem engineers clarifying water, creating …

Gastropoda is the most speciose class in Mollusca, the second largest animal phylum. The
internal relationships of major gastropod groups remain largely unsettled, partly due to the …

Abstract The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) is an endangered and economically
important marine bivalve species that plays a critical role in the coastal ecosystem. Here, we …

While plant genome analysis is gaining speed worldwide, few plant genomes have been
sequenced and analyzed on the African continent. Yet, this information holds the potential to …

Pseudozyma hubeiensis is a basidiomycete yeast that has the highly desirable traits for
lignocellulose valorisation of being equally efficient at utilization of glucose and xylose, and …

Background Despite constantly improving genome sequencing methods, error-free
eukaryotic genome assembly has not yet been achieved. Among other kinds of problems of …