Keyword

chitons

Description: Marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, characterized by shells composed of eight overlapping plates.

Primary topic: Marine Biology and Ecology Research (73%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q188906

OpenAlex ID: keywords/chitons

Feeding capabilities and limitation of herbivorous molluscs: A functional group approach

1982 · R. S. Steneck, L. Watling · Marine Biology · 617

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

2011 · Kevin M. Kocot, Johanna T. Cannon, et al. · Nature · 485

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

2011 · Stephen A. Smith, Nerida G. Wilson, et al. · Nature · 418

Biogenic magnetite as a basis for magnetic field detection in animals

1981 · Joseph L. Kirschvink, James L. Gould · Biosystems · 413

Articulated halkieriids from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland and their role in early protostome evolution

1995 · S. Conway Morris, J. S. Peel · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 325

Magnetite in Denticle Capping in Recent Chitons (Polyplacophora)

1962 · HEINZ A. LOWENSTAM · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 286

Eye evolution and its functional basis

2013 · DAN-E. NILSSON · Visual Neuroscience · 266

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Gastropod evolutionary rates and phylogenetic relationships assessed using partial 28S rDNA and histone H3 sequences

2000 · Donald. J. Colgan, Winston F Ponder, et al. · Zoologica Scripta · 257

The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon

2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 253

A stratigraphy of marine bioerosion

2004 · Richard G. Bromley · Geological Society London Special Publications · 222

Evidence for a clade composed of molluscs with serially repeated structures: Monoplacophorans are related to chitons

2006 · Gonzalo Giribet, Akiko Okusu, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 217

Morphologie und Bildung der frühontogenetischen Gehäuse bei conchiferen Mollusken

1982 · Klaus Bandel · Facies · 201

Molluscan Phylogeny: The Paleontological Viewpoint

1974 · Bruce Runnegar, John Pojeta · Science · 197

Transformation of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate to Crystalline Dahllite in the Radular Teeth of Chitons

1985 · H. A. Lowenstam, S. Weiner · Science · 192

Molecular phylogeny of brachiopods and phoronids based on nuclear–encoded small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences

1998 · B. L. Cohen, A. Gawthrop, et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 188

The evolution of molluscs

2018 · Andreas Wanninger, Tim Wollesen · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 177

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Molluscan biological and chemical diversity: secondary metabolites and medicinal resources produced by marine molluscs

2010 · Kirsten Benkendorff · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 176

Aplacophora as Progenetic Aculiferans and the Coelomate Origin of Mollusks as the Sister Taxon of Sipuncula

1993 · A. H. Scheltema · Biological Bulletin · 173

Pindar, Athletes, and the Early Greek Statue Habit

2007 · R R R Smith · 165

Chitin Nanostructures in Living Organisms

2010 · Riccardo A. A. Muzzarelli · Topics in geobiology · 163

Investigation of molluscan phylogeny using large-subunit and small-subunit nuclear rRNA sequences

2004 · Yale J. Passamaneck, Christoffer Schander, et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 163

Trochophora larvae: Cell‐lineages, ciliary bands, and body regions. 1. Annelida and Mollusca

2004 · Claus Nielsen · Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution · 150

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Lepidocrocite, an Apatite Mineral, and Magnetite in Teeth of Chitons (Polyplacophora)

1967 · H. A. Lowenstam · Science · 149

Structure, persistence, and role of consumers in a tropical rocky intertidal community (Taboguilla Island, Bay of Panama)

1984 · Jane Lubchenco, Bruce A. Menge, et al. · Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · 145

Molecular evidence that phoronids are a subtaxon of brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Phoronata) and that genetic divergence of metazoan phyla began long before the early Cambrian

2005 · B COHEN, A WEYDMANN · Organisms Diversity & Evolution · 143

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Citation count: 30,200