Mollusca is the second-largest animal phylum with over 100,000 extant species
representing eight classes. Across 1000 extant species in the class Polyplacophora, chitons …

Background Antarctica, its outlying archipelagoes and the Magellanic Subantarctic (MSA)
ecoregion are amongst the last true wilderness areas remaining on the planet. Therefore …

Aim To evaluate the latitudinal pattern of body size within and among chiton species
employing phylogenetically structured analyses and examine the role ofgeographical …

Latitudinal diversity patterns in marine species are commonly estimated from literature
records, which at times are incomplete and/or biased. Advances in molecular phylogenetics …

Chitons have a distinctive armature of eight articulating dorsal shells. In all living species,
the shell valves are covered by a dense array of sensory pores called aesthetes; but in some …

Intertidal communities' composition and diversity usually exhibit strong changes in relation to
environmental gradients at different biogeographical scales. This study represents the first …

Phylogenomics has become a prominent method in systematics, conservation biology, and
biomedicine, as it can leverage hundreds to thousands of genes derived from genomic or …

Phylogenies are essential for organizing knowledge on biological diversity, structuring
classifications, and providing insights into evolutionary events. Worldwide phylogenetic …

In the south-eastern Pacific Ocean (SEP), six species of the genus Chiton have been
recorded. However, the taxonomic status and geographic distribution of some of these …

The species Chiton echinatus was first described by Barmes in 1824. Subsequently, it has
been allocated to several widely distributed genera (eg, Acanthopleura, Enoplochiton …