Snails are highly unusual among multicellular animals in that they move on a layer of costly
mucus, leaving behind a trail that can be followed and utilized for various purposes by …

Disease severity may be altered by the differential responses of hosts and parasites to rising
temperatures leading to an increase or reduction in disease. The net effect of climate …

Early life stages are commonly thought to be highly sensitive to environmental contaminants
and may offer insight into the future health of a population. Despite the importance of …

Viviparidae display two categories of life history traits-one constant and independent of
habitat, another depending on ecological conditions. The relatively constant abundance is …

Bradybaena similaris (Férussac, 1821), commonly known as the Asian trampsnail, is a land
snail originally native to Asia and introduced in other regions of the world through commerce …

ABSTRACT The Edwards-Trinity Aquifer System of Texas, USA, one of the world's most
ecologically diverse groundwater systems, contains 14 species (across seven genera) of …

Costs and benefits associated with matings and the effects of mating frequency on fitness
commonly differ between the sexes. As a result, outcrossing simultaneous hermaphrodites …

Estimates of animal diets and trophic structure using stable isotope analysis are strongly
affected by diet-tissue discrimination and tissue turnover rates, yet these factors are often …

Life-history evolution often results in trade-offs between reproduction, growth and longevity.
We investigated the relationships among these traits in a hermaphroditic freshwater snail …

Although much less common in ecotoxicology than traditional single-generation studies,
multigenerational studies may offer a deeper understanding of the chronic and population …