The first animal mitochondrial genomes to be sequenced were of several vertebrates and
model organisms, and the consistency of genomic features found has led to a 'textbook …

The phylum Mollusca is one of the largest and more diversified among metazoan phyla,
comprising many thousand species living in ocean, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

The habitat and biota most affected by ultra-deep oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) will
necessarily be in the deep-pelagic domain. This domain represents~ 91% of the GoM's …

Phylogenetic relationships among the squids and cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda:
Decapodiformes) have resisted clarification for decades, despite multiple analyses of …

Phylogenies for Octopoda have, until now, been based on morphological characters or a
few genes. Here we provide the complete mitogenomes and the nuclear 18S and 28S …

Background Invertebrates are a very attractive subject for studying host-microbe interactions
because of their simple gut microbial community and host diversity. Studying the …

Background Despite the excellent fossil record of cephalopods, their early evolution is
poorly understood. Different, partly incompatible phylogenetic hypotheses have been …

Mollusca, the second‐most diverse animal phylum, is estimated to have over 100,000 living
species with great genetic and phenotypic diversity, a rich fossil record, and a considerable …

We describe an exceptionally well-preserved vampyropod, Syllipsimopodi bideni gen. et sp.
nov., from the Carboniferous (Mississippian) Bear Gulch Lagerstätte of Montana, USA. The …