supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202241002 and 202172002);Science and Technology Innovation Project of Laoshan Laboratory(No.LSKJ202203104);the Young Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province(tsqn202103036).
Mollusca is the second-largest animal phylum with over 100,000 extant species representing eight classes.Across 1000 extant species in the class Polyplacophora,chitons have a relatively constrained morphology but with...
The authors would like to thank Dr.Weibo Song and Ms.Gongaote Zhang for improving the quality of the fgures in the manuscript.This work was supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972789);Industrial Development Project of Qingdao City(20-3-4-16-nsh);the Science and Technology Development Project of Weihai City(2018NS01).
Despite signifcant advances in the phylogenomics of bivalves over the past decade,the higher-level phylogeny of Imparidentia(a superorder of Heterodonta)remains elusive.Here,a total of fve new mitochondrial sequences(...
the following research grants:The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(201822022);Fisheries Technological Innovation and Promotion Project of Jiangsu Province(Y2017-7).
Amphioctopus fangsiao is an important fishery resource in northern coastal China,and there is an interest to develop its commercial cultivation under controlled conditions.In this study,we describe the embryonic devel...