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Chiral Speciation in Terrestrial Pulmonate Snails

On the basis of data in the literature, the percentages of dextral versus sinistral species of snails have been calculated for western Europe, Turkey, North America (north of Mexico), and Japan. When the family of Clausiliidae is represented, about a quarter of all snail species may be sinistral, wh...

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Main Authors: Gittenberger, Edmund, Hamann, Thomas D., Asami, Takahiro
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3332057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034005