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Changing bryozoan fauna in Otago Harbour reflects growing urbanisation and globalisation
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 59, Issue 5, Page 957-978, December 2025.ABSTRACT A comparison between historic reports dating from 1884 (78 records of 35 species) to the bryozoan fauna present today (98 colonies of 14 species) reveals considerable faunal change in Otago Harbour / Te Wai Ōtākou (45° 50'S 170° 38'E) in Dunedin, east coast of South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Tyler M. Feary, Abigail M. Smith
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An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2014 The morphological disparity of lophotrochozoan phyla makes it difficult to predict the morphology of the last common ancestor. Only fossils of stem groups can help discover the morphological transitions that occurred along the roots of these phyla. Here, we describe a tubular fossil Yuganotheca elegans gen. et sp. nov.
Zhang, Zhifei +14 more
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Distinguishing passive and driven trait evolution in the presence of boundaries
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 9, Page 2067-2081, September 2025.Abstract Quantifying the dynamics of macroevolutionary trends, such as changes in body size and complexity, is vital for understanding the processes that have shaped patterns of extant and extinct biodiversity. For example, whilst maximum body size may tend to increase within lineages (the Cope‐Depéret rule), it is still unclear whether such patterns ...
Elliot M. Butterworth +2 more
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Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 6, Page 1510-1521, June 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Thermal performance curves (TPCs) are important tools for predicting the sensitivity of populations to climate change. However, the interactive ways that temperature affects multiple life‐history components lead to different fitness outcomes.
Jackson A. Powell, Scott C. Burgess
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Journal of Morphology, Volume 285, Issue 9, September 2024.The ctenostome bryozoan genus Terebripora is one of four extant endolithic bryozoan taxa. Many questions surrounding its phylogeny and integrity as true biological taxon persist. This study investigates the tracemaker of Terebripora ramosa (TTR), and finds no typical vesicularioid features, instead supporting a close relationship to the other ...
Sebastian H. Decker +3 more
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Lophophorates prove likewise variable [PDF]
Nature, 1995 Evidence from molecular phylogeny challenges the conventional wisdom that places an obscure but pivotal group of organisms close to our own ancestry.
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Review of skeletal carbonate mineralogy of brachiopods with new material from New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 498-529, September 2024.ABSTRACT We combine published and new mineralogical data on most major taxa of brachiopods from all over the world, to investigate patterns and controls on brachiopod carbonate mineralogy. Measurements of 1726 specimens in 162 species (including 56 fossil species) ranged from 79°N to 74°S and from intertidal to almost 4000 m deep.
Abigail M. Smith +3 more
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Carnets de Géologie, 2004 A succession of developmental types in the lophophores of lingulid brachiopods is reported from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits of South China. These types range from trocholophe, schizolophe to simple coiled spirolophe.
Zhang Zhi-Fei +3 more
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Aspects of the Functional Morphology of the Lophophore in Articulate Brachiopods [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1977 Histologic studies made on three species of articulate brachiopods provide information on the structural integrity, epithelial specialization and other cellular aspects of the lophophore. Similarities in staining properties of granular inclusions found in the matrix with those found in epithelial modifications of the brachial trough and the bases of ...
W. ANN REYNOLDS, HELEN M. MCCAMMON
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Phoronida—A small clade with a big role in understanding the evolution of lophophorates
Evolution &Development, Volume 26, Issue 4, July 2024.Phoronida is a crucial clade for the understanding of lophophorate evolution. The recent findings on their development combined with new fossils, allow a reconstruction of how larvae armor and asexuality evolved in Lophophorata. Abstract Phoronids, together with brachiopods and bryozoans, form the animal clade Lophophorata.
Ludwik Gąsiorowski
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