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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Editors' Foreword; Introduction; Living brachiopods and palaeobiology; Apatite varieties in Recent and fossil linguloid brachiopod shells; Chemico-structural differentiation of the organocalcitic shells of rhynchonellate brachiopods; A TEM investigation of modulated microstructure in Recent and fossil articulate brachiopod shells from New Zealand; The acrosome reaction of the spermatozoa of the inarticulate brachiopod Lingula anatina; Brachiopod larval setae -- a key to the phylum's ancestral life cycle?
Variation in the loops of two Recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda Terebratuloidea) from New Zealand and South Orkney Islands; Shell morphology and geographical distribution of Neocrania (Brachiopoda, Recent) in the eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea; Developmental and settlement characteristics of the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Broderip 1833); Embryonic shells of Devonian linguloid brachiopods; Global surface-water circulation and the main features of brachiopod biogeography; Fundamental differences in external spine growth in brachiopods
Advances in molecular studiesBrachiopod molecular phylogeny advances; Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of long-looped brachiopods; Phylogenetic relationships of brachiopods within the Metazoa based on mitochondrial amino acid sequence analyses; The phylogenetic position of brachiopods inferred from mitochondrial gene orders; Genetic differentiation of Terebratella sanguinea in the New Zealand fiords: a dispersal barrier in the marine environment?; Evolution and phylogeny
Functional morphology of articulatory structures and implications for patterns of musculature in Cambrian rhynchonelliform brachiopodsEarly Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America; Post-Palaeozoic Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda): classification and evolutionary background; Radiations and extinctions of atrypide brachiopods: Ordovician-Devonian; Trends in athyridide diversity dynamics; The systematic position of some Upper Permian terebratulide genera
Ancestry and heterochronic origin of brachiopods of the Superfamily Megathyridoidea (Order Terebratulida): a case of natural selection for equatorial dwarfism?Thecideide phylogeny, heterochrony, and the gradual acquisition of characters; Incorporating stratigraphic data in the phylogenetic analysis of the Rhynchonelliformea; Palaeoecology and ecology; Brachiopods of the Isca submarine cave: observations during ten years; Brachiopod/crinoid associations in the late Cenozoic of the Antillean region; Pragian-Emsian brachiopod communities of the Faou Formation (Massif Armoricain, France)
