Lipidomic Profiling of Edible Japanese Sea Urchins by LC–MS [PDF]
FoodsSea urchins (Echinoidea) are marine echinoderms commonly consumed as seafood in East Asia. To date, various metabolic components of sea urchins have been analyzed, and their health benefits for humans have also been attracting attention.
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Interaction among sea urchins in response to food cues [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Interaction among sea urchins remains largely uninvestigated, although the aggregation of sea urchins is common. In the present study, 1, 15 and 30 sea urchins Strongylocentrotus intermedius (11.06 ± 0.99 mm in test diameter) were placed in a 1 m2 ...
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Macroalgae and interspecific alarm cues regulate behavioral interactions between sea urchins and sea cucumbers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are mutually beneficial organisms in kelp ecosystem. As herbivores, sea urchins process kelp through feeding and egestion, providing inaccessible food for benthic consumers such as sea cucumbers.
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The feces of sea urchins as food improves survival, growth, and resistance of small sea cucumbers Apostichopus japonicus in summer [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Mass mortality and low growth highly decrease the production efficiency and sustainable aquaculture development of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus in summer. Sea urchin feces was proposed to address the summer problems.
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Rearing Sea Urchins to Promote ‘Ready-to-Spawn’ Conditions for Ecotoxicological Surveys [PDF]
ToxicsThe sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is a good model in ecotoxicology, but adults living along the Italian coasts have a limited reproductive period.
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Comparison of Immune Indicators Related to Phagocytosis of Five Species of Sea Urchins under Artificial Infection with the Pathogenic Bacterium of Black Mouth Disease [PDF]
BiologyTo screen for immune indicators closely related to disease resistance, two species of sea urchin susceptible to black mouth disease (Strongylocentrotus intermedius, S.
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High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis Revealed a Preference for Animal-Based Food in Purple Sea Urchins [PDF]
BiologySea urchins play an important role in marine ecosystems. Owing to limitations in previous research methods, there has been insufficient understanding of the food sources and ecological functional value of purple sea urchins, leading to considerable ...
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Spotting disease disrupts the microbiome of infected purple sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyBackground Spotting disease infects a variety of sea urchin species across many different marine locations. The disease is characterized by discrete lesions on the body surface composed of discolored necrotic tissue that cause the loss of all surface ...
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Structural and Functional Variations of Enzymes Indicate Latitudinal Adaptations of Subarctic and Arctic Sea Urchins [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionRapid environmental changes in Arctic fjord systems due to global warming pose new challenges to benthic key species. Sea urchins of the genus Strongylocentrotus are the main grazers on habitat‐forming kelp and have significant influence on their ...
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High fitness areas drive the aggregation of the sea urchin Mesocentrotus nudus [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Sea urchin aggregation is a common phenomenon in coastlines. However, it remains controversial whether sea urchins form resource aggregations or behavioral aggregations in a non-spawning season.
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