Background Classical morphological taxonomy places the approximately 1400 recognized
species of Scleractinia (hard corals) into 27 families, but many aspects of coral evolution …

Background Mitochondrial genomes provide a rich source of molecular variation of proven
and widespread utility in molecular ecology, population genetics and evolutionary biology …

Eurythoe complanata (Pallas 1766) has been considered a cosmopolitan species with a
great morphological similarity across its geographic range. To elucidate whether E …

Of the 5000 fish species on coral reefs, corals dominate the diet of just 41 species. Most
(61%) belong to a single family, the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). We examine the …

Heterobranchia are one of the most species rich groups within Gastropoda, with poorly
resolved phylogenetic relationships especially in basal taxa. In order to resolve phylogenetic …

The aims of this research were to assess the genetic structure of wild Phaseolus lunatus L.
in the Americas and the hypothesis of a relatively recent Andean origin of the species. For …

Abstract Background The superfamily Pterioidea is a morphologically and ecologically
diverse lineage of epifaunal marine bivalves distributed throughout the tropical and …

Vicariance is thought to have played a major role in the evolution of modern parrots.
However, as the relationships especially of the African taxa remained mostly unresolved, it …

Endogenous plant pararetroviruses (EPRVs) are viral sequences of the family
Caulimoviridae integrated into the nuclear genome of numerous plant species. The ability of …

Ants of the myrmicine Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)/T. impurum (Foerster, 1850)
complex have challenged taxonomy for long. Schlick-Steiner et al.(2006) made plausible …