Impacts of nonindigenous crayfishes on ecosystem services exemplify the mixture of positive
and negative effects of intentionally introduced species. Global introductions for aquaculture …

The transition from marine to freshwater habitats is one of the major steps in the evolution of
life. In the decapod crustaceans, four groups have colonized fresh water at different …

The freshwater crayfishes are a group of decapod crustaceans that have played a critical
role in a diversity of biological studies, from physiology, to ecology, neurobiology …

Crayfish are the dominant decapods in many freshwater, and even terrestrial, habitats,
playing important community roles through their large size, mobility, behaviour and …

Lobsters are a ubiquitous and economically important group of decapod crustaceans that
include the infraorders Polychelida, Glypheidea, Astacidea and Achelata. They include …

Burrowing is a common trait among crayfish thought to help species deal with adverse
environmental challenges. However, little is known about the microhabitat ecology of …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

Abstract Background The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a monoclonal,
parthenogenetically reproducing freshwater crayfish species that has formed multiple stable …

Twenty‐five years ago, it was suggested that current‐day New Zealand, part of the largely
sunken continent of Zealandia, could have been completely inundated during the Oligocene …