Discussion The radula patterns found over wax surfaces match those described for the displacement and intensive grazing phases of limpets’ feeding excursions. In previous studies, P. caerulea showed ...

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In this paper we investigate the influence of intramolecular noncovalent interaction, i.e., H-bonding and Li-bonding, on the properties of substituents communicating through the resonance (mesomeric) ...

We assessed the main conchological and anatomical diagnostic characters (i.e., the shell, genitalia, and radula), and examined DNA sequences of the genes encoding the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase ...

Organic–inorganic composite materials found in nature are produced by organisms via spatiotemporally controlled growth of inorganic minerals in a templating scaffold of organic macromolecules. The ...