From sea to land and beyond – New insights into the evolution of euthyneuran Gastropoda (Mollusca) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 Background The Euthyneura are considered to be the most successful and diverse group of Gastropoda. Phylogenetically, they are riven with controversy.
Streit Bruno +4 more
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The Mitochondrial Genomes of the Nudibranch Mollusks, Melibe leonina and Tritonia diomedea, and Their Impact on Gastropod Phylogeny. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The phylogenetic relationships among certain groups of gastropods have remained unresolved in recent studies, especially in the diverse subclass Opisthobranchia, where nudibranchs have been poorly represented.
Joseph L Sevigny +12 more
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On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background A robust phylogenetic hypothesis of euthyneuran gastropods, as a basis to reconstructing their evolutionary history, is still hindered by several groups of aberrant, more or less worm-like slugs with unclear phylogenetic relationships.
Knebelsberger Thomas +5 more
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Corrigendum: Red Sea Opisthobranchia 6: Phyllidiidae and their paradorid mimic: new species and new records (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). ZooKeys 1006: 1–34. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59732 [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 none
Nathalie Yonow
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A New Contribution on the Sea Slug (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) Fauna of the Ustica Island Marine Protected Area (Lower Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean) [PDF]
BiologyUstica is a Sicilian island for which most of the information available on the informal group of sea slugs comes from old and non-specific studies. Consequently, the aim of this study is to provide an updated list of the sea slugs of the Ustica Island ...
Andrea Lombardo +3 more
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Red Sea Opisthobranchia 6: Phyllidiidae and their paradorid mimic: new species and new records (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 With the complexity of the family Phyllidiidae and the problems of identification in the Indo-West Pacific, the story of the Red Sea species continues to unfold.
Nathalie Yonow
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The embryonic life history of the tropical sea hare Stylocheilus striatus (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) under ambient and elevated ocean temperatures [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Ocean warming represents a major threat to marine biota worldwide, and forecasting ecological ramifications is a high priority as atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise.
Rael Horwitz +2 more
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Red Sea Opisthobranchia 5: new species and new records of chromodorids from the Red Sea (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 This is the fifth publication describing species of sea slug heterobranchs, originally based on collections from the Red Sea by the author on four expeditions carried out in 1983 and 1990, with the addition of specimens subsequently collected by ...
Nathalie Yonow
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Opisthobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda) – more than just slimy slugs. Shell reduction and its implications on defence and foraging [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2005 Background In general shell-less slugs are considered to be slimy animals with a rather dull appearance and a pest to garden plants. But marine slugs usually are beautifully coloured animals belonging to the less-known Opisthobranchia.
Wägele Heike, Klussmann-Kolb Annette
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Packaging and delivery of chemical weapons: a defensive trojan horse stratagem in chromodorid nudibranchs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundStorage of secondary metabolites with a putative defensive role occurs in the so-called mantle dermal formations (MDFs) that are located in the more exposed parts of the body of most and very likely all members of an entire family of marine ...
Marianna Carbone +11 more
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