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The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey (2014)
Journal Article
Abu-Bakar, S. B., Razali, N. M., Naggs, F., Wade, C., Mohd-Nor, S. A., & Aileen-Tan, S. H. (2014). The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey. Molecular Biology Reports, 41(3), 1799-1805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-014-3029-5

A total of 30 specimens belonging to five species, namely; Cryptozona siamensis, Sarika resplendens and Sarika sp. from the family Ariophantidae as well as Quantula striata and Quantula sp. from the family Dyakiidae were collected from the Langkawi I... Read More about The mitochondrial 16 s rRNA reveals high anthropogenic influence on land snail diversity in a preliminary island survey.

Phylogenetic relationships of the operculate land snail genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810 in Thailand (2013)
Journal Article
Nantarat, N., Tongkerd, P., Sutcharit, C., Wade, C. M., Naggs, F., & Panha, S. (2014). Phylogenetic relationships of the operculate land snail genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810 in Thailand. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70, 99-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.013

Operculate land snails of the genus Cyclophorus are distributed widely in sub-tropical and tropical Asia. Shell morphology is traditionally used for species identification in Cyclophorus but their shells exhibit considerable variation both within and... Read More about Phylogenetic relationships of the operculate land snail genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810 in Thailand.

A note on the laboratory culture of the benthic foraminifer Cornuloculina balkwilli (MacFadyen) (2013)
Journal Article
Seears, H. A., & Wade, C. M. (2013). A note on the laboratory culture of the benthic foraminifer Cornuloculina balkwilli (MacFadyen). BMC Research Notes, 6(369), https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-369

Background: Genetic studies of the Foraminifera provide valuable insights into marine speciation and biogeography, yet the discovery of vitally needed new genetic markers for this important group is being severely limited by an extreme lack of genet... Read More about A note on the laboratory culture of the benthic foraminifer Cornuloculina balkwilli (MacFadyen).

First report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica in French Polynesia detected using the SSU rRNA gene (2012)
Journal Article
Fontanilla, I. K. C., & Wade, C. M. (2012). First report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica in French Polynesia detected using the SSU rRNA gene. Tropical Biomedicine, 29(4), 642-645

The 5' end of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene was used to determine whether 3rd larval stage Angiostrongylus cantonensis are present in populations of the giant African land snail Achatina fulica from French Polynesia. Two populations, one from... Read More about First report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica in French Polynesia detected using the SSU rRNA gene.

Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera (2012)
Journal Article
Seears, H. A., Darling, K. F., & Wade, C. M. (2012). Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-54

Background: Ecological processes are increasingly being viewed as an important mode of diversification in the marine environment, where the high dispersal potential of pelagic organisms, and a lack of absolute barriers to gene flow may limit the occu... Read More about Ecological partitioning and diversity in tropical planktonic foraminifera.

A fresh insight into transmission of schistosomiasis: A misleading tale of biomphalaria in Lake Victoria (2011)
Journal Article
Standley, C. J., Wade, C. M., & Stothard, J. R. (2011). A fresh insight into transmission of schistosomiasis: A misleading tale of biomphalaria in Lake Victoria. PLoS ONE, 6(10), Article e26563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026563

Lake Victoria is a known hot-spot for Schistosoma mansoni, which utilises freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria as intermediate hosts. Different species of Biomphalaria are associated with varying parasite compatibility, affecting local transmi... Read More about A fresh insight into transmission of schistosomiasis: A misleading tale of biomphalaria in Lake Victoria.

The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) (2010)
Journal Article
Sutcharit, C., Naggs, F., Wade, C. M., Fontanilla, I., & Panha, S. (2010). The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 160(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x

The Streptaxoidea are an ancient and species diverse group that is poorly understood. Examination of the reproductive anatomy of Diaphera showed it to be notably distinct from that of most other streptaxid genera but to exhibit similarities with the... Read More about The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora).

Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide (2009)
Journal Article
Darling, K. F., Thomas, E., Kasemann, S. A., Seears, H. A., Smart, C. W., & Wade, C. M. (2009). Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(31), 12629-12633. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902827106

Evolution of planktic organisms from benthic ancestors is commonly thought to represent unidirectional expansion into new ecological domains, possibly only once per clade. For foraminifera, this evolutionary expansion occurred in the Early-Middle Jur... Read More about Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide.

Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata (2008)
Book Chapter
Mordan, P., & Wade, C. (2008). Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata. In W. Ponder (Ed.), Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (409-426). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520250925.003.0015

This chapter focuses on the Pulmonata, gastropods belonging to the clade Heterobranchia. It explains that the pulmonates include the large majority of land snails and slugs, as well as many freshwater snails and a few small families of estuarine and... Read More about Heterobranchia II: The Pulmonata.

The genetic diversity of planktic foraminifera and the global distribution of ribosomal RNA genotypes (2008)
Journal Article
Darling, K. F., & Wade, C. M. (2008). The genetic diversity of planktic foraminifera and the global distribution of ribosomal RNA genotypes. Marine Micropaleontology, 67(3-4), 216-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.01.009

Fossil planktic foraminifers in the ocean sediments play an unparalleled role in our understanding of the oceanographic environment in the past. An in depth knowledge of their diversity, ecology and biogeography in the modern ocean lies central to th... Read More about The genetic diversity of planktic foraminifera and the global distribution of ribosomal RNA genotypes.

Molecular phylogeny of the helicoid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea), with special emphasis on the Camaenidae (2007)
Journal Article
Wade, C. M., Hudelot, C., Davison, A., Naggs, F., & Mordan, P. B. (2007). Molecular phylogeny of the helicoid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea), with special emphasis on the Camaenidae. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73(4), 411-415. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eym030

The superfamily Helicoidea is a large and diverse group of land snails belonging to the Pulmonate suborder Stylommatophora. It has an almost worldwide distribution, absent from only sub-Saharan Africa, southern South America, New Zealand and some Pac... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of the helicoid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea), with special emphasis on the Camaenidae.

The small subunit (SSU) ribosomal (r) RNA gene as a genetic marker for identifying infective 3rd juvenile stage Angiostrongylus cantonensis (2007)
Journal Article
Fontanilla, I. K., & Wade, C. M. (2008). The small subunit (SSU) ribosomal (r) RNA gene as a genetic marker for identifying infective 3rd juvenile stage Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Acta Tropica, 105(2), 181-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.10.007

We have developed a molecular method using PCR-direct sequencing to identify the infective 3rd juvenile stage of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a nematode parasite of rodents that can accidentally infect humans and cause eosinophilic meningitis. We dem... Read More about The small subunit (SSU) ribosomal (r) RNA gene as a genetic marker for identifying infective 3rd juvenile stage Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

Global molecular phylogeography reveals persistent Arctic circumpolar isolation in a marine planktonic protist (2007)
Journal Article
Darling, K. F., Kucera, M., & Wade, C. M. (2007). Global molecular phylogeography reveals persistent Arctic circumpolar isolation in a marine planktonic protist. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(12), 5002-5007. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0700520104

The high-latitude planktonic foraminifera have proved to be particularly useful model organisms for the study of global patterns of vicariance and gene flow in the oceans. Such studies demonstrate that gene flow can occur over enormous distances in t... Read More about Global molecular phylogeography reveals persistent Arctic circumpolar isolation in a marine planktonic protist.

Molecular and morphological studies of Streptochilus from the Arabian Sea (2006)
Journal Article
Darling, K., Thomas, E., & Wade, C. (2006). Molecular and morphological studies of Streptochilus from the Arabian Sea. 00 Journal not listed, 29(1), 187--187. https://doi.org/10.11137/2006_1_187-187

Specimens of the biserial planktonic foraminiferal genus Streptochilus were collected 540 nautical miles offshore in the central Arabian Sea during the summer monsoon of 2003. Samples were collected from 5m water depth in waters with an average depth... Read More about Molecular and morphological studies of Streptochilus from the Arabian Sea.

Quaternary climate instability as the driver of genetic diversification in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sin) (2006)
Journal Article
Darling, K., Kucera, M., & Wade, C. (2006). Quaternary climate instability as the driver of genetic diversification in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sin). 00 Journal not listed, 29(1), 533. https://doi.org/10.11137/2006_1_533-533

Molecular genetic analysis shows that many planktonic foraminiferal morphospecies represent complexes of several distinct genetic types with distinct ecologies and distributions. Such cryptic diversity is common in most planktonic protists. Global bi... Read More about Quaternary climate instability as the driver of genetic diversification in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sin).

A resolution for the coiling direction paradox in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (2006)
Journal Article
Darling, K. F., Kucera, M., Kroon, D., & Wade, C. M. (2006). A resolution for the coiling direction paradox in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. Paleoceanography, 21(2), Article PA2011. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005PA001189

We present new data on genotypic differences and biogeographic distribution of coiling types in the living planktonic foraminiferal morphospecies Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. The genetic evidence demonstrates that coiling direction in N. pachyderma i... Read More about A resolution for the coiling direction paradox in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma.

Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora) (2006)
Journal Article
Wade, C. M., Mordan, P. B., & Naggs, F. (2006). Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 87(4), 593-610. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00596.x

We have incorporated an additional 56 species of land snails and slugs in our ribosomal (r) RNA molecular phylogeny. The new taxa include representatives of several important groups. The molecular tree now includes 160 species of stylommatophoran lan... Read More about Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora).