Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures,
regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs …

Understanding how natural selection shapes genetic variation in populations is of
paramount importance in evolutionary biology. Affordable high-throughput sequencing now …

Dispersal of benthic species in the sea is mediated primarily through small, vulnerable
larvae that must survive minutes to months as members of the plankton community while …

Seventy-one per cent of the earth's surface is covered by ocean which contains almost 80%
of the world's phyla–“seascape genomics” is the study of how spatial dependence and …

Abstract Aim The Atlanto‐Mediterranean edible purple sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus, is a
commercially exploited keystone species in benthic communities. Its browsing activity can …

Increasing anthropogenic pressures are causing long-lasting regime shifts from high-
diversity ecosystems to low-diversity ones. In the Mediterranean Sea, large expanses of …

The present paper provides a multidisciplinary fine-scale description of a Mediterranean
mesophotic new habitat dominated by the bivalve Neopycnodonte cochlear (Poli, 1795) …

As β‐diversity can be seen as a proxy of ecological connections among species
assemblages, modeling the decay of similarity in species composition at increasing distance …

Alterations in seawater chemistry posed by acidification may lead to immunological and
antioxidant defence impairment in sea urchins, with differences among local populations …

Dispersal is a central process that affects population growth, gene flow, and ultimately
species persistence. Here we investigate the extent to which gene flow occurs between …