Phylogenomic resolution of the root of panpulmonata, a hyperdiverse radiation of gastropods: new insight into the evolution of air breathing

• Main Authors: Krug, Patrick J., Caplins, Serena A., Algoso, Krisha, Thomas, Kanique, Valdés, Ángel A., Wade, Rachael, Wong, Nur Leena W. S., Eernisse, Douglas J., Kocot, Kevin M.
• Format: Article
• Published: The Royal Society 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102753/; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1855

Transitions to terrestriality have been associated with major animal radiations including land snails and slugs in Stylommatophora (>20 000 described species), the most successful lineage of ‘pulmonates’ (a non-monophyletic assemblage of air-breathing gastropods). However, phylogenomic studies ha...