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Comparing the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) with the present interglacial period (MIS 1) using a multidimensional functional diversity analysis: The marine molluscs from Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago, central Atlantic) as a case study

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 333-360, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Marine fossil records hold outstanding importance for ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical studies. Santa Maria Island in the Azores Archipelago (central Atlantic) features a remarkable marine fossil record spanning from the Pliocene to recent times.
Sérgio P. Ávila, Samuel Arruda, Luís Silva, Ana Hipólito, Rui Quartau, Ricardo S. Ramalho, Patrícia Madeira, Carlos S. Melo, Lara Baptista, Ana Cristina Rebelo, Gustavo M. Martins, Gonçalo Castela Ávila, Mohamed Amine Doukani, Esther Martín‐González, Daniele Scarponi, Alfred Uchman, Markes Johnson   +16 more
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Optimizing Computed Tomography (CT) for Structurally Complex Organisms: A Case Study of Gastropod Shell Features

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
We developed and tested a computed tomography (CT) protocol to estimate shell volume as a method instead of using water and sand. We compared the estimates obtained using this protocol (OCT, optimized CT) with traditional methods (water and sand) and with a CT previous setting (NOCT, nonoptimized CT).
Andreza Caroline Caiero, Marilia Nagata Ragagnin, Cláudio Campi de Castro, Marcelo Gusmão Paraíso Cavalcanti, Daniel Gorman, Alexander Turra   +5 more
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Refuge trifecta: intertidal gastropods use pits to escape heat, wave action and predation

Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 10, October 2025.
Refuges play a critical role in ecology and evolution. In hard intertidal shores, small pits attract benthic invertebrates such as gastropods, however, there exists little mechanistic understanding of the processes driving the active usage of these microhabitat features. We conducted a series of laboratory experiments to assess whether the marine snail
Joel W. Q. Tan, Janine Ledet, Peter A. Todd   +2 more
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Evolution of Duplicated Hox Gene Clusters in Land Snails and Slugs

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, Volume 344, Issue 6, Page 363-368, September 2025.
Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 genes, HoxB usually has 7 genes. After duplication of an ancestral 11‐gene Hox cluster, there was patchwork retention of duplicated genes.
Finn McHale, Peter O. Mulhair, Peter W. H. Holland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imposex incidence in Stramonita haemastoma (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Mediterranean and Atlantic coast after Tributyltin global ban

Journal of Sea Research, 2018
Abstract The development of male genital tract by female gastropods, or imposex, can be caused by the tributyltin used in antifouling paints. A spatial survey of imposex in the gastropod Stramonita haemastoma was conducted across five Western Mediterranean and eleven North-Eastern Atlantic sites, in order to monitor the effectiveness of the ...
Tahani El Ayari, Nicolas Bierne, Najoua Trigui El Menif   +2 more
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Shell occupation by the endemic western Atlantic hermit crab Isocheles sawayai (Diogenidae) from Caraguatatuba, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The aim of this study was to characterize the pattern of shell occupation by the hermit crab Isocheles sawayai Forest and Saint-Laurent, 1968, from the Caraguatatuba region.
MZ. Fantucci, R. Biagi, FL. Mantelatto
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Habitat heterogeneity in the assemblages and shell use by the most abundant hermit crabs (Anomura: Diogenidae and Paguridae): does the occupied shell species differ according to gender and species?

Nauplius
The goal of this study was to identify patterns of shell occupation by different species of hermit crabs from the southern Brazilian coast. In total, 644 individuals were collected, represented by six hermit species.
Gilson Stanski, Fernando L. Mantelatto, Antonio Leão Castilho   +2 more
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Shell occupation by the hermit crab Dardanus insignis (Decapoda, Diogenidae) from the north Coast of São Paulo state, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The pattern of shell occupation by the hermit crab Dardanus insignis (Saussure, 1858) from the subtropical region of southeastern coast of Brazil was investigated in the present study. The percentage of shell types that were occupied and the morphometric
I. F. Frameschi, L. S. Andrade, V. Fransozo, L. C. Fernandes-Góes, A. L. Castilho   +4 more
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MORFOMETRIA, PROPORCION SEXUAL Y SELECTIVIDAD A CONCHILLAS DE GASTEROPODOS DE TRES ESPECIES SIMPATRICAS DE CANGREJOS ERMITAÑOS PAGURUS (DECAPODA. ANOMURA, PAGURIDAE) EN LA BAHIA DE ANCON, LIMA, PERU MORPHOMETRIC DATA, SEXUAL PROPORTION AND SELECTIVITY TO GASTROPOD SHELLS OF THREE SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF HERMIT CRAB PAGURUS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA, PAGURIDAE, AT BAY OF ANCON, LIMA, PERU

Gayana, 2005
Los cangrejos "ermitaños" estudiados del género Pagurus (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) son macroinvertebrados del intermareal rocoso marino de la costa central del Perú.
José Iannacone, Lorena Alvariño
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Unexpected mosaic distribution of two hybridizing sibling lineages in the teleplanically dispersing snailStramonita haemastomasuggests unusual postglacial redistribution or cryptic invasion

Ecology and Evolution, 2017
AbstractMolecular approaches have proven efficient to identify cryptic lineages within single taxonomic entities. Sometimes these cryptic lineages maybe previously unreported or unknown invasive taxa. The genetic structure of the marine gastropodStramonita haemastomahas been examined in the Western Mediterranean and North‐Eastern Atlantic populations ...
Tahani El Ayari, Najoua Trigui El Menif, Carlos Saavedra, David Cordero, Frédérique Viard, Nicolas Bierne   +5 more
openaire   +5 more sources