Background: Instructions to fabricate mineralized structures with distinct nanoscale architectures, such as seashells and coral and vertebrate skeletons, are encoded in the genomes of a wide variety of animals. In mollusks, ...

This volume contains the program, abstracts and field guides of the centenary meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (September 2012, Berlin). The topics of the symposia are: • The Alfred Wegener Centennial Symposium: ...

Background: An increasing number of studies demonstrate that genetic differentiation and speciation in the sea occur over much smaller spatial scales than previously appreciated given the wide distribution range of many ...