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Gecko adhesion based sea star crawler robot
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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Biology, 2022 To study how Odontaster validus can influence the spatial structure of Antarctic benthic communities and how they respond to disturbance, it is necessary to assess potential dietary shifts in different habitats. We investigated the diets of O.
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Evolution & Development, 2009 SUMMARY The genetic basis for the evolution of development includes genes that encode proteins expressed on the surfaces of sperm and eggs. Previous studies of the sperm acrosomal protein bindin have helped to characterize the adaptive evolution of gamete compatibility and speciation in sea urchins.
Susana, Patiño +4 more
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Sea stars generate downforce to stay attached to surfaces
Scientific Reports, 2021 Intertidal sea stars often function in environments with extreme hydrodynamic loads that can compromise their ability to remain attached to surfaces. While behavioral responses such as burrowing into sand or sheltering in rock crevices can help minimize ...
Mark Hermes, Mitul Luhar
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Animals, 2021 Sea stars in research are often lethally sampled without available methodology to render them insensible prior to sampling due to concerns over sufficient sample quality for applied molecular techniques.
Sarah J. Wahltinez +4 more
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Eyes, Vision, and Bioluminescence in Deep-Sea Brisingid Sea Stars [PDF]
The Biological Bulletin, 2023 AbstractSea stars are a major component of the megabenthos in most marine habitats, including those within the deep sea. Being radially symmetric, sea stars have sensory structures that are evenly distributed along the arms, with a compound eye located on each arm tip of most examined species.
Garm, Anders +4 more
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Live imaging of echinoderm embryos to illuminate evo-devo
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Echinoderm embryos have been model systems for cell and developmental biology for over 150 years, in good part because of their optical clarity. Discoveries that shaped our understanding of fertilization, cell division and cell differentiation were only ...
Vanessa Barone, Deirdre C. Lyons
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 In June of last year, researchers got the first report that sea stars in Washington’s Olympic National Park were succumbing to a new disease outbreak. By August, stars were falling off the rocks—dead by the thousands—at Vancouver Island. “That’s the point at which we started getting samples and alerting people,” says Drew Harvell, a marine ...
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Diversity, 2016 Outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci) are likely to be strongly associated with drastic changes in larval survival influenced by food availability. However, no quantitative or qualitative data are available on the distribution of
Go Suzuki +13 more
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Going deeper and further: a range and depth extension for the deep-sea feather star Paratelecrinus cubensis (Carpenter, 1881) (Comatulida, Atelecrinidae), first record from the Western Pacific [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 A specimen belonging to the deep-sea feather-star family Atelecrinidae was collected in April 2018 at the Kocebu Guyot at 1294 m deep. Based on its morphological characters, the specimen was identified as Paratelecrinus cubensis (Carpenter, 1881).
Zijie Mei, Zhongli Sha, Shao’e Sun
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