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Marine Drugs, 2023 Echinoderms have been attracting increasing attention for their polysaccharides, with unique chemical structure and enormous potential for preparing drugs to treat diseases.
Haiqiong Ma +12 more
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Temporary expansion to shelf depths rather than an onshore-offshore trend: the shallow-water rise and demise of the modern deep-sea brittle star family Ophiacanthidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) [PDF]
, 2013 Hypotheses on the age and possible antiquity of the modern deep-sea fauna put forward to date almost all agree on the assumption that the deep-sea fauna is largely the result of colonisation from shallow-water environments. Here, the fossil record of the
Thuy, Ben, Ben Thuy
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Discovery of novel representatives of bilaterian neuropeptide families and reconstruction of neuropeptide precursor evolution in ophiuroid echinoderms [PDF]
Open Biology, 2017 Neuropeptides are a diverse class of intercellular signalling molecules that mediate neuronal regulation of many physiological and behavioural processes.
Meet Zandawala +7 more
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Global Diversity of Brittle Stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea)
PLoS ONE, 2012 This review presents a comprehensive overview of the current status regarding the global diversity of the echinoderm class Ophiuroidea, focussing on taxonomy and distribution patterns, with brief introduction to their anatomy, biology, phylogeny, and palaeontological history. A glossary of terms is provided.
Stöhr, Sabine +3 more
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Evolutionary innovations in Antarctic brittle stars linked to glacial refugia [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 AbstractThe drivers behind evolutionary innovations such as contrasting life histories and morphological change are central questions of evolutionary biology. However, the environmental and ecological contexts linked to evolutionary innovations are generally unclear.
Sally C. Y. Lau +4 more
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Strategy of micro-environmental adaptation to cold seep among different brittle stars’ colonization
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Diffusing fluid from methane seepage in cold seep field creates zones with physicochemical gradients and divergent ecosystems like the mussel beds and clam beds.
Zelin Chen +11 more
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New Echinoderm-Crab Epibiotic Associations from the Coastal Barents Sea
Animals, 2021 During diving surveys for a Russian research project that monitored introduced species, red king crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) were collected at a coastal site of the Barents Sea to study the structure and dynamics of this species.
Alexander G. Dvoretsky +1 more
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Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2019 A brittle star, an echinoderm with penta-radially symmetric body, can make decisions about its moving direction and move adapting to various circumstances despite lacking a central nervous system and instead possessing a rather simple distributed nervous
Takeshi Kano +4 more
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The palaeozoic brittle-stars of Victoria
, 1934 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Withers, Robert B +1 more
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