This work was supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31772414);the Natural Science Foundation of Qingdao City(No.20-3-4-16-nsh);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.201964001).
The mitochondrial genomes(mitogenomes)are purportedly under selection for smaller size to improve their replica-tion and translation efficiency.However,the mitogenomes of Arcidae species are larger than those of other...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41406185);the Special Funds for the Young Scholars of Taxonomy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.ZSBR-010);the Special Program for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology,China (No.2012FY112400,No.2013FY111200)
The Nansha Islands, China, have extremely high marine biodiversity and hundreds of mollusks have been reported there. Benthos resources investigations of the intertidal and subtidal zone around the Nansha Islands have...
financially supported by Chonnam National University in 2013
Trumpet shell(Charonia lampas sauliae)(Mollusca, Heterogastropoda, Cymatidae) has extensive economic value. Studies on the artificial larval development of C. lampas sauliae for aquaculture utilization have become esp...
supported by the National Key Technology Support Program (2011BAD13B05)
Spionid worms of Polydora ciliata inhabit the shells of many commercially important bivalves and cause disease in molluscan aquaculture. Their sperm structure is closely related to their fertilization method. To give ...