If anyone read the posts on cowries and wondered what ADN studies are, they are DNA studies (depending on the sequence of adjectives and nouns in the speaker's language). The results will probably greatly help our understanding of the classificaiton of the group, but will also probably require a few label changes, judging by the results for bivalves.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
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