The maturation of marine phylogeography depends on integration of comparative
information across different regions globally. The northwestern Pacific, characterized by …

How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but
cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 …

This study represents the first comprehensive molecular assessment of northwestern Pacific
molluscs. In total, 2801 DNA barcodes belonging to 569 species from China, Japan and …

Mounting evidence of cryptic species in the marine realm emphasizes the necessity to
thoroughly revise our current perceptions of marine biodiversity and species distributions …

Background Substrate, ocean current and freshwater discharge are recognized as important
factors that control the larval dispersal and recruitment of intertidal species. Life history traits …

Background The marginal seas of northwestern Pacific are characterized by unique
topography and intricate hydrology. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain genetic …

Abstract The family Pinnidae Leach, 1819, includes approximately 50 species of large
subtidal and coastal marine bivalves. These commercially important species occur in …

The pen shell, Atrina pectinata, is one of the commercial bivalves in East Asia and thought to
be recently affected by anthropogenic pressure (habitat destruction and/or fishing pressure) …

Over the past 16 years, more than half (59.68%) of research papers in China on DNA
barcoding have been published in Chinese rather than English. Using the records in the …

The purplish bifurcate mussel Mytilisepta virgata is widely distributed and represents one of
the major components of the intertidal community in the northwestern Pacific (NWP). Here …