With over 100,000 described extant species in eight major lineages, Mollusca is the second most speciose animal phylum 6. Many molluscs are economically important as food and producers of pearls and ...

Molluscan shells arise from a highly orchestrated process in which specialised mantle tissues secrete an organic matrix that scaffolds the nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate polymorphs. Two ...

A study published in Science on the evolution of molluscan forms and genomes offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex and diverse biology of mollusks, shedding light on how they have evolved over ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup is going further, allowing bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters to act as ...

Accurate phylogenetic trees are fundamental to evolutionary and comparative biology, but the almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla and diverse body plans during the Cambrian Explosion ...

Ch. 1. The molluscan provincial concept in the tropical western Atlantic -- ch. 2. Provinces of the tropical western Atlantic -- ch. 3. Molluscan biodiversity in the Georgian subprovince -- ch. 4.

The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational harvest of molluscan shellfish from Sandy Point up to the Canadian border due to unsafe levels of a paralytic biotoxin. Molluscan ...

The structure and function of molluscan digestive system, pp. 301-379 Natural History Museum ...