Recent technical innovations are revealing surprising patterns in mollusc shell pigmentation,
such as an unexpectedly modest role for melanins and rapid divergences in the mix of …

Species identification is a key procedure for broad-scoped ecological, phylogeographic and
evolutionary studies. However, to perform a taxonomic study in the molecular era is a …

Reptiles display great diversity in color and pattern, yet much of what we know about
vertebrate coloration comes from classic model species such as the mouse and zebrafish. 1 …

Using the nudibranch genus Amphorina as a model, ongoing speciation is demonstrated, as
well as how periodic-like patterns in colouration can be included in an integrated method of …

Background The geometric patterns that adorn the shells of many phylogenetically disparate
molluscan species are comprised of pigments that span the visible spectrum. Although early …

Species of colourful arboreal snails of the genus Amphidromus from Southeast Asia
commonly exhibit high intraspecific variation in shell morphology. Although highly …

Although the land snail Cepaea nemoralis is one of the most thoroughly investigated colour
polymorphic species, there have been few recent studies on the inheritance of the shell …

Although snails of the genus Cepaea have historically been important in studying colour
polymorphism, an ongoing issue is that there is a lack of knowledge of the underlying …

Molluscs are a highly speciose phylum that exhibits an astonishing array of colours and
patterns, yet relatively little progress has been made in identifying the underlying genes that …

Yeasts are unicellular fungi that harbour a large biodiversity of thousands of species, of
which particularly ascomycetous yeasts are instrumental to human food and beverage …