Molluscs.org: The web page of Angus
Davison
The
mollusc gene database
Go to http://www.nematodes.org/NeglectedGenomes/MOLLUSCA/.
The database is
searchable by BLAST and keyword. Main credits go to Mark Blaxter.
The citation is Davison, A and Blaxter, ML (2005). An expressed
sequence tag survey of gene expression in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, an intermediate
vector of Fasciola hepatica.
Parasitology 130: 539-552.
Snail
genomes (coming soon ....)
Biomphalaria genome
initiative.
Limpet (Lottia) genome:
its been sequenced already.
Aplysia genome.
I can make a pretty good case for sequencing the genome of both the
pond snail Lymnaea or the
land snail Cepaea in case any
one out there with lots of money is listening...
GHF9
cellulase alignment
Nexus format file.
The
citation is Davison, A and Blaxter, ML (2005). Ancient origin of
glycosyl hydrolase family 9 cellulase genes. Molecular Biology and
Evolution 22: 1273-1284.
The snail
mating behaviour database
The database is dedicated to GR Webb, the Alfred Kinsey of snail sex.
The database is not yet complete and some facts need to be checked. If
you have any further information, or can point me to any references
(or images – even better), then I would be delighted to hear from you
(angus.davison@nott.ac.uk). For some of the species, there have been
multiple observations on their mating behaviour (e.g. Cepaea) so it is not possible to
list them all. For further details see Davison
et al. (2005),
or Asami
et al. (1998). On a similar vein, if you have got this far then
you might also like to read Koene
and
Schulenburg (2005). Incidentally,
if you are looking for Helix
aspersa but can’t see it, that’s because it is now called Cantareus aspersus. However, I have
also heard that it might have been renamed again - to Cornu aspersum.
The mating behaviour database is back! Download it here. In
the meantime, email me if you would like a copy of the old version.
Compilation of photos of mating snails 