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 …

Conotoxins form a diverse group of peptide toxins found in the venom of predatory marine
cone snails. Decades of conotoxin research have provided numerous measurable scientific …

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

Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum
specimens are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies …

Freshwater mussels (order Unionoida) are a diverse radiation of parasitic bivalves that
require temporary larval encystment on vertebrate hosts to complete metamorphosis to free …

Using FrogCap, a recently-developed sequence-capture protocol, we obtained> 12,000
highly informative exons, introns, and ultraconserved elements (UCEs), which we used to …

Bivalves constitute an important resource for fisheries and as cultural objects. Bivalve
phylogenetics has had a long tradition using both morphological and molecular characters …

Newts of the genus Triturus (marbled and crested newts) exhibit substantial variation in the
number of trunk vertebrae (NTV) and a higher NTV corresponds to a longer annual aquatic …

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

Abstract The Neogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda) encompass more than 15,000
described species of marine predators, including several model organisms in toxinology …