Log on / register
BioMed Central home | Journals A-Z | Feedback | Support | My details
Open AccessHighly AccessResearch

Opisthobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda) – more than just slimy slugs. Shell reduction and its implications on defence and foraging

Heike Wägele1,2 email and Annette Klussmann-Kolb3 email

Museum König Bonn, Adenaueralle 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Institut für Evolutionsbiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, An der Immenburg 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany

Zoologisches Institut, J.W. Goethe Universität, Siesmayerstrasse 70, 60054 Frankfurt, Germany

author email corresponding author email

Frontiers in Zoology 2005, 2:3doi:10.1186/1742-9994-2-3

Published: 16 February 2005

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Data matrix of characters – 79 taxa and 110 characters are included. N = non applicable. This implies that the character is not present and can therefore not be coded. ? = character state not known. Genus with an asterisk indicate that information on this genus is extracted from literature. Detailed information will be given elsewhere in Wägele & Klussmann-Kolb (in prep.).

Format: DOC Size: 930KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

Additional File 2:

Characters – Characters and coding of character states used for phylogenetic analysis presented in Figure 3.

Format: DOC Size: 124KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer


© 1999-2010 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Science+Business Media.