An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the most diverse zoological groups on the planet. The study, published in ...
Most people have collected shells at the beach. Some have even started a shell collection. But few people realise these shells are a unique genetic resource that scientists are only beginning to tap ...
From much-maligned garden slugs and snails to tool-using octopuses and bivalves such as clams and oysters, molluscs are among the most diverse animal groups on the planet. But their origins are a ...
(Phys.org)—Researchers from Britain's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, working in the Antarctic have discovered that a species of mollusk, Lissarca miliaris, changes from male to female as ...
PRESENT-DAY authorities agree that, within the Mollusca, the chitons (or Polyplacophora) are closely related to the solenogastres (or Aplacophora). An important item influencing this view is the ...