#  Molluscan Phylogeny and Evolution Research 

 



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Phylogenomic tools (the sequencing and analysis of large genomic fractions of organisms for phylogenetic analysis) have emerged as a powerful means to elucidating phylogenetic events that were difficult to address using standard target-gene approaches. Among the toughest phylogenetic conundrums are the relationships among the molluscan classes (aplacophorans, chitons, monoplacophorans, cephalopods, bivalves, gastropods and scaphopods). In collaboration with [**Casey Dunn**](http://www.brown.edu/Faculty/Dunn_Lab/) at Brown University and [**Nerida Wilson**](http://ucsd.academia.edu/NeridaWilson) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography we will collect ESTs for a selected number of molluscs in order to come up with a well supported phylogeny for the second largest animal phylum.

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