ABSTRACT 2,604 names at the rank of subtribe, tribe, subfamily, family and superfamily
have been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods, and another 35 for …

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 …

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 …

It is generally assumed that the soil environment played an important role in the evolution of
life on land, as a transition medium between water and air. This idea was already formulated …

The molluskan order Neogastropoda encompasses over 15,000 almost exclusively marine
species playing important roles in benthic communities and in the economies of coastal …

Nassariidae are a group of scavenging, predominantly marine, snails that are diversified on
soft bottoms as well as on rocky shores, and are the subject of numerous research papers in …

Background Venoms are deadly weapons to subdue prey or deter predators that have
evolved independently in many animal lineages. The genomes of venomous animals are …

Transcriptome-based exon capture methods provide an approach to recover several
hundred markers from genomic DNA, allowing for robust phylogenetic estimation at deep …

Comprising about 60% of gastropod diversity, caenogastropods display almost all kinds of
shell forms and include many commercially important marine groups. Although the …

For the purpose of determining the placement of Calyptraeidae within the Littorinimorpha,
we hereby furnish a thorough analysis of the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) …