The Mollusk Division of the Museum of Zoology is a collection of resources for people who conduct research on, or need information about, mollusks. The division curators and graduate students conduct research in ecology, taxonomy and evolution using museum collections data, molecular techniques, and field studies. The division contains one of the largest collections of freshwater mollusks in the world. It also has a respectable marine collection, and one of the top collections of land snails in the United States. [more]
News & Recent Publications
Snail venom study gives insights into biodiversity's origins
Professor Tom Duda and his former postdoc,
Ed Remigio published a study in the February issue of Molecular Ecology
on the evolution of venoms of predatory marine snails.
Cortés Ortiz, L., Duda, Jr., T.F., et. al. 2007. Hybridization in large-bodied New World primates. Genetics 176:2421-2425.