Gecko adhesion based sea star crawler robot [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Over the years, efforts in bioinspired soft robotics have led to mobile systems that emulate features of natural animal locomotion. This includes combining mechanisms from multiple organisms to further improve movement.
Sampada Acharya +8 more
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Regeneration of the larval sea star nervous system by wounding induced respecification to the Sox2 lineage [PDF]
eLife, 2022 The ability to restore lost body parts following traumatic injury is a fascinating area of biology that challenges current understanding of the ontogeny of differentiation.
Minyan Zheng +2 more
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Two decades of change in sea star abundance at a subtidal site in Puget Sound, Washington. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Long-term datasets can reveal otherwise undetectable ecological trends, illuminating the historical context of contemporary ecosystem states. We used two decades (1997-2019) of scientific trawling data from a subtidal, benthic site in Puget Sound ...
Helen R Casendino +4 more
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Lineage tracing shows that cell size asymmetries predict the dorsoventral axis in the sea star embryo [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2022 Background Cell size asymmetries are often linked to cell fate decisions, due to cell volumes and cell fate determinants being unequally partitioned during asymmetric cell divisions.
Vanessa Barone +2 more
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A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sunflower Sea Star Transcriptomic Responses to Challenge With Sea Star Wasting Disease Tissue Homogenates [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSea star wasting disease (SSWD) has impacted over twenty sea star species along the Northeast Pacific Coast, with some seemingly more susceptible than others.
Grace Crandall +7 more
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Sea star wasting disease demography and etiology in the brooding sea star Leptasterias spp. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) describes a suite of disease signs believed to have led to catastrophic die-offs in many asteroid species, beginning in 2013. While most studies have focused on large, easily visible sea stars with widely-dispersing larvae,
Noah Jaffe +3 more
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Sunflower sea star predation on urchins can facilitate kelp forest recovery [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 Ross Whippo +2 more
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Diversity of Sea Star-Associated Densoviruses and Transcribed Endogenous Viral Elements of Densovirus Origin. [PDF]
Journal of Virology, 2020 Holly L. Lutz +2 more
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Biology, 2023 Competitive interactions come in a variety of forms and may be modulated by the size and number of individuals involved, and/or the resources available.
Brittney Stuckless +3 more
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Impact of the extinct megaherbivore Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) on kelp forest resilience
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Giant kelp forests off the west coast of North America are maintained primarily by sea otter (Enhydra lutris) and sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) predation of sea urchins.
Peter D. Roopnarine +4 more
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