Recent developmental and genomic research focused on “slipper snails” in the genus
Crepidula has positioned Crepidula fornicata as a de facto model system for …

Although phylogenetic studies are increasingly utilizing multi-locus datasets, a review of
GenBank data for the Gastropoda indicates a strong bias towards a few short gene …

Organismic and morphological approaches to biology have lately come under attack from a
variety of corners in both teaching and research. However, the main moti-vations for these …

Gastropod snails in the genus Crepidula have emerged as model systems for studying a
metazoan super clade, the Spiralia. Recent work on one species in particular, Crepidula …

Nowadays molecular species delimitation methods promote the identification of species
boundaries within complex taxonomic groups by adopting innovative species concepts and …

The Thoracica includes the ordinary barnacles found along the sea shore and is the most
diverse and well-studied superorder of Cirripedia. However, although the literature abounds …

Although calyptraeid gastropods are not well understood taxonomically, in part because
their simple plastic shells are the primary taxonomic character, they provide an ideal system …

The “Spiralia” represent one of the three major clades of bilaterian metazoans. Though
members of this clade exhibit tremendous diversity in terms of their larval and adult body …

Despite being the objects of numerous macroevolutionary studies, many of the best
represented constituents of the fossil record—including diverse examples such as …

Evolutionary transitions between different modes of development in marine invertebrates are
thought to be biased toward the loss of feeding larvae. Because the morphology of feeding …