Insights from an integrated view of the biology of apple snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

KA Hayes, RL Burks, A Castro-Vazquez, PC Darby… - Malacologia, 2015 - BioOne
Apple snails (Ampullariidae) are among the largest and most ecologically important
freshwater snails. The introduction of multiple species has reinvigorated the field and …

Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm

AN Ostrovsky, S Lidgard, DP Gordon… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Matrotrophy, the continuous extra‐vitelline supply of nutrients from the parent to the progeny
during gestation, is one of the masterpieces of nature, contributing to offspring fitness and …

Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families

P Bouchet, JP Rocroi, B Hausdorf, A Kaim, Y Kano… - Malacologia, 2017 - BioOne
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 …

[图书][B] Biology and evolution of the mollusca, volume 1

WF Ponder, DR Lindberg, JM Ponder - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater

EE Strong, O Gargominy, WF Ponder… - Freshwater animal …, 2008 - Springer
The world's gastropod fauna from continental waters comprises∼ 4,000 valid described
species and a minimum of 33–38 independent lineages of Recent Neritimorpha …

Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda

F Zapata, NG Wilson, M Howison… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gastropods are a highly diverse clade of molluscs that includes many familiar animals, such
as limpets, snails, slugs and sea slugs. It is one of the most abundant groups of animals in …

A congruent topology for deep gastropod relationships

TJ Cunha, G Giribet - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gastropod molluscs are among the most diverse and abundant animals in the oceans, and
are successful colonizers of terrestrial and freshwater environments. Past phylogenetic …

Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements

C Grande, J Templado, R Zardoya - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Gastropod mitochondrial genomes exhibit an unusually great variety of gene
orders compared to other metazoan mitochondrial genome such as eg those of vertebrates …

Neogastropod phylogenetic relationships based on entire mitochondrial genomes

RL Cunha, C Grande, R Zardoya - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Background The Neogastropoda is a highly diversified group of predatory marine
snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Traditionally, its monophyly has been widely …

The complete mitochondrial genome of a turbinid vetigastropod from MiSeq Illumina sequencing of genomic DNA and steps towards a resolved gastropod phylogeny

ST Williams, PG Foster, DTJ Littlewood - Gene, 2014 - Elsevier
A need to increase sampling of mitochondrial genomes for Vetigastropoda has been
identified as an important step towards resolving relationships within the Gastropoda. We …