Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.

THE available data about the structure of the byssus-making system, the functions of the various glands involved and the process by which the byssus is elaborated 1–3 have still to be clarified.

Technically speaking, an invertebrate is any animal that lacks a spine or backbone but generally lacks bones entirely. They make up 95% of all animal species roaming the Earth today and vary widely in ...

The Appendices of the Convention provide the lists of wild species that are protected by the Convention. In the introductory text here we should add : Appendix I includes wild flora species and ...

This important study advances our understanding of genome annotations for chiton genomes. It provides a solid estimation of syntentic relationships for the chromosomes of the four new genomes plus an ...