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 …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Venomous marine snails (superfamily Conoidea) are a remarkably biodiverse marine
invertebrate lineage (featuring more than 10,000 species). Conoideans use complex …

Accelerating the description of biodiversity is a major challenge as extinction rates increase.
Integrative taxonomy combining molecular, morphological, ecological and geographical …

The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

We present a large-scale molecular phylogeny that includes 320 of the 761 recognized valid
species of the cone snails (Conus), one of the most diverse groups of marine molluscs …

We present a new classification for the genus Conus sensu lato (family Conidae), based on
molecular phylogenetic analyses of 329 species. This classification departs from both the …

We are beginning to appreciate that the huge radiations of both marine and terrestrial taxa in
the aftermath of the K/Pg mass extinction event were concentrated largely, but not …

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