World Congress of Malacology Antwerp ... - Unitas Malacologica

12:30 – 12:50 The evolutionary adaptation of mollusks to deep-sea vents: insights from their
fossil history
Kiel, Steffen
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone interested)
in Lecture hall U 024
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Julia Sigwart
14:00 – 14:20 Molluscan mito-genomics: chances and pitfalls in phylogenetics
Steiner, Gerhard; Dreyer, Hermann
14:20 – 14:40 Land snails versus mammals: chromosomal neighbourhood of genes drives
the „phylogenetic impact“ of DNA sequences
Armbruster, Georg F.J.
14:40 – 15:00 Does the size of molecular matrices really matter? Using molecular loci in
‘Archaeogastropod’ phylogenies
Aktipis, Stephanie W.; Giribet, Gonzalo
15:00 – 15:20 Hemocyanin: a 'respiratory' chance for molluscan phylogenetics
Lieb, Bernhard; Streit, Klaus
15:20 – 15:40 Crystallographic textures of shell layers in Patellogastropoda: a new tool
unraveling their phylogeny
Frýda, Jiří; Sasaki, Takenori
15:40 – 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Gerhard Steiner
16:10 – 16:30 Radiation and diversity of primitive living chitons – unravelling the base of
the polyplacophoran family tree
Sigwart, Julia D.
16:30 – 16:50 A molecular phylogeny of apple snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda:
Ampullariidae) with emphasis on the African species
Jørgensen, Aslak; Kristensen, Thomas K.; Madsen, Henry
16:50 – 17:10 Molecular systematics and evolutionary patterns of diversification in New
World Ampullariidae
Hayes, Kenneth A.
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