Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, ...

A new study rebuilds the coelacanth family tree with refined data, showing these ancient fishes experienced bursts of change ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...

The pearls were near-round to round in shape and exhibited surface structure characteristics from various marine mollusk species (figure 1). Arranged in a necklace layout, they weighed from 3.96 ct to ...

ABSTRACT: The absence of the atp8 gene in the mitochondrial genomes of Platyhelminthes and certain other mollusks has garnered significant ... This superfamily warrants further in-depth investigation.

These mollusks, living in tropical coral reefs, might revolutionize our approach to solar energy. The giant clams themselves don't perform photosynthesis but host symbiotic algae on their mantle, ...

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The formation of calcite prism architecture in the prismatic layer of the mollusk shell involves the participation of a number of different proteins. One protein family, Asprich, has been identified ...

Abstract: This work presents the application of the omni-aiNet al- gorithm - an immune-inspired algorithm originally devel- oped to solve single and multiobjective optimization prob- lems - to the ...

The peculiar human passion for the exoskeletons of mollusks has been around since early humans first started picking up pretty objects. Shellfish were, of course, already familiar as food ...