The comb jelly opsins and the origins of animal phototransduction. [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2014 Opsins mediate light detection in most animals, and understanding their evolution is key to clarify the origin of vision. Despite the public availability of a substantial collection of well-characterized opsins, early opsin evolution has yet to be fully ...
Omar Rota-Stabelli +2 more
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A ctenophore (comb jelly) employs vortex rebound dynamics and outperforms other gelatinous swimmers [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Gelatinous zooplankton exhibit a wide range of propulsive swimming modes. One of the most energetically efficient is the rowing behaviour exhibited by many species of schyphomedusae, which employ vortex interactions to achieve this result.
Brad J. Gemmell +3 more
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Salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea limits the reproduction and population expansion of the newly invaded comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The recent invasion of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi into northern European waters is of major public and scientific concern. One of the key features making M. leidyi a successful invader is its high fecundity combined with fast growth rates. However,
Cornelia Jaspers +2 more
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Biodiversity and distribution of gelatinous macrozooplankton in the North Sea and adjacent waters - dataset from winter 2022ZENODO [PDF]
Data in BriefThe diversity and distribution of gelatinous macrozooplankton is described by presenting qualitative and quantitative data of the jellyfish and comb jelly community encountered in the North Sea and Skagerrak/Kattegat during January/February 2022.
Camilla Juul Dahl Jensen +5 more
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Gelatinous macrozooplankton in the North Sea: Biodiversity and distribution pattern during winter 2023-Q1 datasetzenodo [PDF]
Data in BriefThe biodiversity and distribution of gelatinous macrozooplankton in the North Sea and adjacent waters during winter (January/February) 2023 is presented both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Camilla Juul Dahl Jensen +5 more
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Diversity, 2021 Global change has led to manifold changes of marine ecosystems and biodiversity world-wide. While it has been shown that certain jellyfish and comb jelly species have increased regionally, it remains to be investigated if this is a general trend or ...
Cornelia Jaspers +2 more
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Data in Brief, 2022 This data article includes a qualitative and quantitative description of the gelatinous macrozooplankton community of the North Sea during January-February 2021.
Louise G. Køhler +7 more
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Speciation of pelagic zooplankton: Invisible boundaries can drive isolation of oceanic ctenophores
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 The study of evolution and speciation in non-model systems provides us with an opportunity to expand our understanding of biodiversity in nature. Connectivity studies generally focus on species with obvious boundaries to gene flow, but in open-ocean ...
Shannon B. Johnson +9 more
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Ecological indicators reveal historical regime shifts in the Black Sea ecosystem [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background The Black Sea is one of the most anthropogenically disturbed marine ecosystems in the world because of introduced species, fisheries overexploitation, nutrient enrichment via pollution through river discharge, and the impacts of climate change.
Ekin Akoglu
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 High throughput low-density SNP arrays provide a cost-effective solution for population genetic studies and monitoring of genetic diversity as well as population structure commonly implemented in real time stock assessment of commercially important fish ...
José Martin Pujolar +3 more
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