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Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map (2023)
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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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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.

Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells (2021)
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The nature of shell growth in gastropods is useful because it preserves the ontogeny of shape, colour, and banding patterns, making them an ideal system for understanding how inherited variation develops, is established and maintained within a popula... Read More about Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells.

Pearls of wisdom—a Theo Murphy issue on molluscan genomics (2021)
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Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology (2021)
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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.

Qualitative and quantitative methods show stability in patterns of Cepaea nemoralis shell polymorphism in the Pyrenees over five decades (2021)
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Over the past century, the study of animal color has been critical in establishing some of the founding principles of biology, especially in genetics and evolution. In this regard, one of the emerging strengths of working with the land snail genus Ce... Read More about Qualitative and quantitative methods show stability in patterns of Cepaea nemoralis shell polymorphism in the Pyrenees over five decades.

The draft genome sequence of the grove snail Cepaea nemoralis (2021)
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© 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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© 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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© 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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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.

Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila) (2020)
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© 2020 The Linnean Society of London. We have undertaken a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Hygrophila based on 3112 sites of the large subunit and 5.8S ribosomal RNA genes. A clear basal division between Chilinoidea and Lymnaeoid... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila).

Flipping Shells! Unwinding LR Asymmetry in Mirror-Image Molluscs (2020)
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© 2019 In seeking to understand the establishment of left–right (LR) asymmetry, a limiting factor is that most animals are ordinarily invariant in their asymmetry, except when manipulated or mutated. It is therefore surprising that the wider scientif... Read More about Flipping Shells! Unwinding LR Asymmetry in Mirror-Image Molluscs.

Formin, an opinion (2020)
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A new set of endogenous control genes for use in quantitative real-time PCR experiments show that formin Ldia2dex transcripts are enriched in the early embryo of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Panpulmonata) (2019)
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Malacological Society of London, all rights reserved. Although the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis is an emerging model organism for molecular studies in a wide variety of field... Read More about A new set of endogenous control genes for use in quantitative real-time PCR experiments show that formin Ldia2dex transcripts are enriched in the early embryo of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Panpulmonata).

Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird (2019)
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Colour polymorphisms play a key role in sexual selection and speciation, yet the mechanisms that generate and maintain them are not fully understood. Here, we use genomic and transcriptomic tools to identify the precise genetic architecture and evolu... Read More about Genetics and evidence for balancing selection of a sex-linked colour polymorphism in a songbird.

Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis (2019)
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Biologists have long tried to describe and name the different phenotypes that make up the shell polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Traditionally, the view is that the ground colour of the shell is one of a few major colour classes, eith... Read More about Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.

Recombination within the Cepaea nemoralis supergene is confounded by incomplete penetrance and epistasis (2019)
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Although the land snail Cepaea nemoralis is one of the most thoroughly investigated colour polymorphic species, there have been few recent studies on the inheritance of the shell traits. Previously, it has been shown that the shell polymorphism is co... Read More about Recombination within the Cepaea nemoralis supergene is confounded by incomplete penetrance and epistasis.

Correction to: Reconstructed historical distribution and phylogeography unravels non-steppic origin of Caucasotachea vindobonensis (Gastropoda: Helicidae) (2018)
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© 2018, Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik. One of the author’s name of this article was incorrectly published as “Chris Wade”. This is now presented correctly in this article as “Christopher M. Wade”.

Single-gene speciation: mating and gene flow between mirror-image snails (2017)
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Variation in the shell coiling, or chirality, of land snails provides an opportunity to investigate the potential for “single-gene” speciation, because mating between individuals of opposite chirality is believed not possible if the snails mate in a... Read More about Single-gene speciation: mating and gene flow between mirror-image snails.

Reconstructed historical distribution and phylogeography unravels non-steppic origin of Caucasotachea vindobonensis (Gastropoda: Helicidae) (2017)
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Existing data on the phylogeography of European taxa of steppic provenance suggests that species were widely distributed during glacial periods but underwent range contraction and fragmentation during interglacials into “warm-stage refugia.” Among th... Read More about Reconstructed historical distribution and phylogeography unravels non-steppic origin of Caucasotachea vindobonensis (Gastropoda: Helicidae).