Molluscan biological and chemical diversity: Secondary metabolites and medicinal resources produced by marine molluscs

K Benkendorff - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The phylum Mollusca represents an enormous diversity of species with eight distinct
classes. This review provides a taxonomic breakdown of the published research on marine …

Gastropod immunobiology

ES Loker - Adv Exp Med Biol, 2010 - Springer
Over their 500 million year history, gastropods have radiated into marine, freshwater and
terrestrial environments and adopted life styles ranging from herbivory to carnivory to …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Biology and evolution of the mollusca, volume 1

WF Ponder, DR Lindberg, JM Ponder - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda

F Zapata, NG Wilson, M Howison… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gastropods are a highly diverse clade of molluscs that includes many familiar animals, such
as limpets, snails, slugs and sea slugs. It is one of the most abundant groups of animals in …

On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia

KM Jörger, I Stöger, Y Kano, H Fukuda… - BMC evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background A robust phylogenetic hypothesis of euthyneuran gastropods, as a basis to
reconstructing their evolutionary history, is still hindered by several groups of aberrant, more …

Diverse Gastropod Hosts of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the Rat Lungworm, Globally and with a Focus on the Hawaiian Islands

JR Kim, KA Hayes, NW Yeung, RH Cowie - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Eosinophilic meningitis caused by the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is
an emerging infectious disease with recent outbreaks primarily in tropical and subtropical …

A congruent topology for deep gastropod relationships

TJ Cunha, G Giribet - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gastropod molluscs are among the most diverse and abundant animals in the oceans, and
are successful colonizers of terrestrial and freshwater environments. Past phylogenetic …

New patellogastropod mitogenomes help counteracting long-branch attraction in the deep phylogeny of gastropod mollusks

JE Uribe, I Irisarri, J Templado, R Zardoya - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Long-branch attraction (LBA) is a well-known artifact in phylogenetic reconstruction. Sparse
taxon sampling and extreme heterogeneity of evolutionary rates among lineages generate …

A phylogenomic backbone for gastropod molluscs

JE Uribe, VL González, I Irisarri, Y Kano… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gastropods have survived several mass extinctions during their evolutionary history
resulting in extraordinary diversity in morphology, ecology, and developmental modes …

Gastropods from recent hot vents and cold seeps: systematics, diversity and life strategies

T Sasaki, A Warén, Y Kano, T Okutani… - The vent and seep biota …, 2010 - Springer
Since the first discovery of hydrothermal vents at the Galapagos Spreading Center in 1977,
gastropods have gained considerable attention as a major constituent of the …