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High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis (2024)
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Davison, A., Chowdhury, M., Johansen, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Programme, Uliano-Silva, M., & Blaxter, M. (2024). High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis. BMC Genomics, 25(1), Article 596. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10505-w

Molluscan mitochondrial genomes are unusual because they show wide variation in size, radical genome rearrangements and frequently show high variation (>10%) within species. As progress in understanding this variation has been limited, we used whole... Read More about High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map (2023)
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Johansen, M., Saenko, S., Schilthuizen, M., Berriman, M., Durbin, R., Lawniczak, M., …Davison, A. (2023). Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map. Heredity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00648-z

Molluscs are a highly speciose phylum that exhibits an astonishing array of colours and patterns, yet relatively little progress has been made in identifying the underlying genes that determine phenotypic variation. One prominent example is the land... Read More about Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map.

Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis (2022)
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Ramos-Gonzalez, D., Saenko, S. V., & Davison, A. (2022). Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(8), 1110-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14060

Although snails of the genus Cepaea have historically been important in studying colour polymorphism, an ongoing issue is that there is a lack of knowledge of the underlying genetics of the polymorphism, as well as an absence of genomic data to put f... Read More about Deep structure, long-distance migration and admixture in the colour polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology (2021)
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Davison, A., & Neiman, M. (2021). Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 376(1825), Article 20200163. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0163

Molluscs are among the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, no individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. We here make the case that both perceptual and methodological barriers ha... Read More about Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology.

The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis (2021)
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Saenko, S. V., Groenenberg, D. S., Davison, A., & Schilthuizen, M. (2021). The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis. G3, 11(2), Article jkaa071. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaa071

© The Author(s) 2021. Studies on the shell color and banding polymorphism of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis and the sister taxon Cepaea hortensis have provided compelling evidence for the fundamental role of natural selection in promoting and maint... Read More about The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis (2021)
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Dong, N., Bandura, J., Zhang, Z., Wang, Y., Labadie, K., Noel, B., …Feng, Z. P. (2021). Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis. BMC Genomics, 22, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07287-2

© 2021, The Author(s). Background: The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (L. stagnalis) has been widely used as a model organism in neurobiology, ecotoxicology, and parasitology due to the relative simplicity of its central nervous system (CNS). However,... Read More about Ion channel profiling of the Lymnaea stagnalis ganglia via transcriptome analysis.

Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails (2020)
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Davison, A., & Thomas, P. (2020). Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails. Biology Letters, 16(6), Article 20200110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0110

© 2020 The Author(s). While animal bodies are typically bilaterally symmetric on the outside, the internal organs nearly always show an invariant left-right (LR) asymmetry. In comparison, snails are both internally and externally LR asymmetric, outwa... Read More about Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails: Origins of rare mirror-image snails.

Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails (2020)
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Davison, A., Thomas, P., & ‘Jeremy the snail’ citizen scientists. (2020). Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails. Biology Letters, 16(6), Article 20200110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0110

While animal bodies are typically bilaterally symmetric on the outside, the internal organs nearly always show an invariant left-right (LR) asymmetry. In comparison, snails are both internally and externally LR asymmetric, outwardly obvious in the sh... Read More about Internet 'shellebrity' reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails.