New insights into muscle function during pivot feeding in seahorses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Seahorses, pipefish and their syngnathiform relatives are considered unique amongst fishes in using elastic recoil of post-cranial tendons to pivot the head extremely quickly towards small crustacean prey.
Sam Van Wassenbergh +2 more
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Embryonic and aglomerular kidney development in the bay pipefish, Syngnathus leptorhynchus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 In this report we describe the embryogenesis of the bay pipefish, Syngnathus leptorhynchus, and the organogenesis of its aglomerular kidney. Early development was analyzed via a series of montages and images documenting embryos collected from the brood ...
Bianca R Maters +2 more
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The complete mitogenome dataset of the Critically Endangered estuarine pipefish, Syngnathus watermeyeri [PDF]
Data in BriefThe Critically Endangered South African estuarine pipefish, Syngnathus watermeyeri, is one of the rarest teleost fish on the planet. In this analysed dataset, the complete mitochondrial genome of this species was assembled, annotated, and described.
Arsalan Emami-Khoyi
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Signatures and likely sources of the male pregnancy microbiome in wild bay pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) [PDF]
Animal MicrobiomeBackground Understanding the origin and structure of microbiomes and their associations with ecologically significant host traits is essential for understanding the evolution of host-microbe interactions.
Elyse M. Barker +8 more
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High rates of male courtship in a female-ornamented pipefish [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 In species with sex-specific signalling traits that appear to be ornamental (i.e. are conspicuous and with no obvious natural selection benefit), the ornamented sex typically initiates courtship and is most active in courtship.
Fleur van Eyndhoven +2 more
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The effect of parental age on the quantity and quality of offspring in Syngnathus typhle, a species with male pregnancy [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsParental age impacts offspring quantity and quality. Most prior research focused on maternal age. Since in most organisms the mother produces the costly eggs plus provides all or most parental care, it is difficult to distinguish maternal effects ...
Freya Adele Pappert +3 more
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Single-cell sequencing provides clues about the developmental genetic basis of evolutionary adaptations in syngnathid fishes [PDF]
eLifeSeahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons are fishes from the family Syngnathidae that have evolved extraordinary traits including male pregnancy, elongated snouts, loss of teeth, and dermal bony armor. The developmental genetic and cellular changes that led
Hope M Healey +6 more
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Reconstruction of the complete mitogenomes of predator and prey from a faecal metagenomic dataset [PDF]
Data in BriefThe application of faecal DNA in genetic studies of wild populations minimises disturbances to their normal behaviours and body integrity. Here, I present an analysis of a metagenomic dataset generated from the faecal DNA of several specimens of the ...
Arsalan Emami-Khoyi
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Near chromosome-level and highly repetitive genome assembly of the snake pipefish Entelurus aequoreus (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) [PDF]
GigaByteThe snake pipefish, Entelurus aequoreus (Linnaeus, 1758), is a northern Atlantic fish inhabiting open seagrass environments that recently expanded its distribution range.
Magnus Wolf +19 more
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Unmasking pipefish otolith using synchrotron-based scanning X-ray fluorescence [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Scientists use otoliths to trace fish life history, especially fish migrations. Otoliths incorporate signatures of individual growth and environmental use.
Vincent Haÿ +6 more
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