Dancing for food in the deep sea: bacterial farming by a new species of Yeti crab.
PLoS ONE, 2011 Vent and seep animals harness chemosynthetic energy to thrive far from the sun's energy. While symbiont-derived energy fuels many taxa, vent crustaceans have remained an enigma; these shrimps, crabs, and barnacles possess a phylogenetically distinct ...
Andrew R Thurber +2 more
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Polymorphic organization in a planktonic graptoloid (Hemichordata: Pterobranchia) colony of Late Ordovician age [PDF]
, 2012 Graptolites are common fossils in Early Palaeozoic strata, but little is known of their soft-part anatomy. However, we report a long-overlooked specimen of Dicranograptus aff.
Howe, Michael P.A. +6 more
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Invasive barnacle fouling on an endemic burrowing crab mobile basibionts as vectors to invade a suboptimal habitat [PDF]
, 2014 Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata is an ecosystem engineer endemic of salt marshes and mudflats of the southwestern Atlantic coast, where several Patagonian salt marshes were invaded by the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula, a typical rocky shore species.
Bortolus, Alejandro +3 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012 The barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, is an obligate commensal of sea turtles that may show population variability according to the physical characteristics of the environment and properties of turtle hosts; therefore, we characterized the ...
Eduardo Nájera-Hillman +2 more
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Epibionts and Epiphytes in Seagrass Habitats: A Global Analysis of Their Ecological Roles
SciSeagrass ecosystems support complex biological interactions that shape marine community structure and ecosystem functioning. Thanks to their structural complexity, they support heterogeneous communities and interact with associated benthic invertebrates ...
Nicoletta Marsiglia +3 more
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Microbiome of Trichodesmium Colonies from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Filamentous diazotrophic Cyanobacteria of the genus Trichodesmium, often found in colonial form, provide an important source of new nitrogen to tropical and subtropical marine ecosystems.
Mary R. Gradoville +4 more
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Non-marine Arthropoda of the Tasmanian Triassic. [PDF]
, 1975 Conchostracan fossils are described for the first time from Triassic rocks in Tasmania. Taxa present include Cyzicus (Lioestheria) spp., Palaeolimadia (Palaeolimadia) cf. wianamattensis, P. (Palaeolimnadia) banksia n. sp., P. (Palaeolimnadia) poatinis n.
Tasch, P
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Oceanologia, 2014 The occurrence of epizoic filter-feeding Protozoa (Vorticella and Zoothamnium) and parasitic Protozoa (Ellobiopsis) on Calanoida was noticed in the Gulf of Gdańsk in 1998, 1999 and 2006.
Luiza Bielecka, Rafał Boehnke
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Additional crayfish survey of Checkley Brook, Hollywood End Brook and Black Brook (Goyt) 1999 [PDF]
, 1999 This is the report on the Additonal Crayfish Survey of Checkley Brook, Hollywood End Brook and Black Brook from 1999 by the Environment agency. The aim of the 1999 survey was to obtain a more complete picture of the crayfish distribution in those areas.
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Growth of the mussel Mytilus edulis L. in the Wadden Sea affected by tidal emergence and barnacle epibionts [PDF]
, 2001 Buschbaum, Christian, Saier, B.
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