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 …

Opisthobranchia have experienced an unsettled taxonomic history. At the moment their
taxonomy is in state of dramatic flux as recent phylogenetic studies have revealed traditional …

Freshwater snails have received much attention for their role as intermediate hosts for
trematodes causing disease in people and animals such as schistosomiasis and various …

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 …

Molecular analyses of Aplysia, a well-established model organism for cellular and systems
neural science, have been seriously handicapped by a lack of adequate genomic …

We have incorporated an additional 56 species of land snails and slugs in our ribosomal (r)
RNA molecular phylogeny. The new taxa include representatives of several important …

Background A robust phylogenetic hypothesis of euthyneuran gastropods, as a basis to
reconstructing their evolutionary history, is still hindered by several groups of aberrant, more …

We present entire sequences of two hymenopteran mitochondrial genomes and the major
portion of three others. We combined these data with nine previously sequenced …

Background Gastropod mitochondrial genomes exhibit an unusually great variety of gene
orders compared to other metazoan mitochondrial genome such as eg those of vertebrates …

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are
some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover …