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 …

It is generally assumed that the soil environment played an important role in the evolution of
life on land, as a transition medium between water and air. This idea was already formulated …

Nassariidae are a group of scavenging, predominantly marine, snails that are diversified on
soft bottoms as well as on rocky shores, and are the subject of numerous research papers in …

Background Venoms are deadly weapons to subdue prey or deter predators that have
evolved independently in many animal lineages. The genomes of venomous animals are …

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 …

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

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

Understanding how the extraordinary taxonomic and ecological diversity of cone snails
(Caenogastropoda: Conidae) evolved requires a statistically robust phylogenetic framework …

Mitochondrial DNA hyperdiversity is primarily caused by high mutation rates (µ) and has
potential implications for mitogenome architecture and evolution. In the hyperdiverse mtDNA …