Biological diversity is depleting at an alarming rate. Additionally, a vast amount of
biodiversity still remains undiscovered. Taxonomy has been serving the purpose of …

In order to understand relationships between living and fossil groups of spinicaudatan clam
shrimp, it is important to review historical and contemporary attempts at evaluating the …

Field and laboratory protocols that originally led to the success of published stud− ies have
previously been only briefly laid out in the methods sections of scientific publica− tions. For …

The Spinicaudata (spiny clam shrimp) are a large group of freshwater, bivalved branchiopod
crustaceans in need of taxonomic revision. Herein, the extant Spinicaudata families and …

Species are fundamental units of nature that need proper identification in order to assess
and conserve biodiversity. Artemia is a model crustacean for population analysis and …

The extant genera of the spinicaudatan clam shrimp family Limnadiidae are revised using
morphological criteria built on previously published molecular analyses. The combined …

Modern multilocus molecular techniques are a powerful tool in the detection and analysis of
cryptic taxa. However, its shortcoming is that with allopatric populations it reveals …

The genus Hydra has long served as a model system in comparative immunology,
developmental and evolutionary biology. Despite its relevance for fundamental research …

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 …

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 …