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Copepods provide a rich organic microenvironment allowing the settlement and proliferation of microorganisms. Such symbiotic associations were previously hypothesized to be especially developed in warm oligotrophic seas. In the ultraoligotrophic Levantine Sea, we found that copepod‐associated microbial communities were host‐specific, suggesting that ...
Ximena Velasquez +7 more
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We reappraise a fossil chelonibiid specimen from the Miocene of insular Tanzania that was previously referred to the living species Chelonibia caretta. This largely forgotten specimen is here described as the holotype of the new species †Chelonibia zanzibarensis. Microscopical analyses reveal that †C. zanzibarensis grasped its host's integument in much
Alberto COLLARETA +3 more
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Although several bryozoans are considered habitat-former species, allowing colonisation by epibionts and promoting biodiversity, studies dealt so far with only some, usually constructional, species.
Antonietta Rosso +8 more
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Epibiosis, symbiosis and gastropod taphonomy in the deep sea [PDF]
A synthesis of current research suggests several trends in deep sea taphonomy. First, epibiosis (the condition of having bionts on exoskeletons that is not obligate) appears to decrease with increasing depth. Epibionts, such as serpulid polychaetes and barnacles that take advantage of ephemeral hard substrates offered by crab exoskeletons, sea urchin ...
Sally E. Walker, Janet R. Voight
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Facilitation by foundation species commonly structures terrestrial and marine communities. Intraspecific variation in individual properties of these strong facilitators can affect the whole suite of the dependent taxa.
Alexandra Chava +2 more
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During an ecological study of the epibiotic relationship between ciliate protists and Pomacea figulina (Spix, 1827) (Gastropoda, Ampullariidae), originating from an urban stream in southeast Brazil, a high infestation by the peritrich ciliate Carchesium ...
Roberto Júnio P. Dias +4 more
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Biological features on epibiosis of Amphibalanus improvisus (Cirripedia) on Macrobrachium acanthurus (Decapoda) [PDF]
This study aimed to describe the epibiosis of barnacles Amphibalanus improvisus on eight adult Macrobrachium acanthurus males from the Mundaú Lagoon, state of Alagoas, Brazil. The number of epibiont barnacles varied from 247 to 1,544 specimens per prawn; these were distributed predominantly on the cephalothorax and pereiopods, but also on the abdomen ...
Farrapeira, Cristiane Maria Rocha +1 more
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Large scale patterns of antimicrofouling defenses in the hard coral Pocillopora verrucosa in an environmental gradient along the Saudi Arabian coast of the Red Sea [PDF]
Large scale patterns of ecologically relevant traits may help identify drivers of their variability and conditions beneficial or adverse to the expression of these traits.
Al-Sofyani, Abdelmohsin +5 more
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Intersite epibiosis characterization on dominant mangrove crustacean species from Malaysia [PDF]
Epibiosis was studied in dominant mangrove crustacean species in several areas in Malaysia. The observed basibionts were the crustaceans Mesopodopsis orientalis, Acetes japonicus, Acetes sibogae, Acetes indicus and Fenneropenaeus merguiensis and the epibionts found were the protozoan ciliates Acineta branchicola, Lagenophrys eupagurus, Conidophrys ...
Fernandez-Leborans, G. +3 more
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Anti-epiphyte defenses in the red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla : non-native algae are better defended than their native conspecifics [PDF]
Epibiosis in the marine environment is a stressor that may determine invasion success in introduced species. Previous comparisons showed resistance to epibionts can be higher in non-native than in resident seaweed species, but we do not know whether it ...
Bian, Dapeng +5 more
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