Trophic ecology of sea urchins in coral-rocky reef systems, Ecuador [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Sea urchins are important grazers and influence reef development in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP). Diadema mexicanum and Eucidaris thouarsii are the most important sea urchins on the Ecuadorian coastal reefs.
Nancy Cabanillas-Terán +3 more
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Phylogenomics of strongylocentrotid sea urchins [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2013 Strongylocentrotid sea urchins have a long tradition as model organisms for studying many fundamental processes in biology including fertilization, embryology, development and genome regulation but the phylogenetic relationships of the group remain ...
K. Kober, G. Bernardi
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Identification of sea urchins in melonguane coastal area using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network [PDF]
Ilkom Jurnal Ilmiah, 2022 Sea urchins (Echinoidea) are marine biota that is found in Indonesian waters and there are 950 types of sea urchins scattered throughout the world. This study aims to classify types of sea urchins based on the characteristics contained in sea urchin ...
Andar Alwein Pinilas +2 more
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Sea Urchins Predation Facilitates Coral Invasion in a Marine Reserve
PLoS ONE, 2011 Macroalgae is the dominant trophic group on Mediterranean infralittoral rocky bottoms, whereas zooxanthellate corals are extremely rare. However, in recent years, the invasive coral Oculina patagonica appears to be increasing its abundance through ...
R. Coma +5 more
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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.
Wenzhuo Tian +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Gonad size, color, texture and taste of Mesocentrotus nudus sea urchins collected from a barren can be improved by a short-term cage culture while being fed fresh Saccharina japonica kelp during May-July. We investigated the effect of S. japonica feeding
Satomi Takagi +4 more
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Can sea urchins beat the heat? Sea urchins, thermal tolerance and climate change
PeerJ, 2015 The massive die-off of the long-spined sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, a significant reef grazer, in the mid 1980s was followed by phase shifts from coral dominated to macroalgae dominated reefs in the Caribbean.
Elizabeth Sherman
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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 ...
Zerui Liu +4 more
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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 ...
Chloe G. Shaw +4 more
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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 ...
Marie Koch +3 more
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