Johnma José Rondón, Vadim A Pisarenco, José Ramón Pardos-Blas, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Rafael Zardoya, Julio Rozas
Chemoreception is critical for the survival and reproduction of animals. Except for a reduced group of insects and chelicerates, the molecular identity of chemosensory proteins is poorly understood in invertebrates. Gastropoda is the extant mollusk class with the greatest species richness, including marine, freshwater, and terrestrial lineages, and likely, highly diverse chemoreception systems. Here, we performed a comprehensive comparative genome analysis taking advantage of the chromosome-level information of two Gastropoda species, one of which belongs to a lineage that underwent a whole genome duplication event...
December 22, 2023: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution