Morphological variation of the cirri and penis in the hermaphroditic sea-turtle barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha …

K Cash, GD Goodwin, D Burkholder… - Journal of Crustacean …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity of the penis and cirri of acorn barnacles is well documented for
intertidal species. We investigated whether these phenomena also occur in the epizoic sea …

Evidence for Host Selectivity and Specialization by Epizoic Chelonibia Barnacles Between Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles

LL Boyd, JD Zardus, CM Knauer… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Epibionts are organisms that utilize the exterior of other organisms as a living substratum.
Many affiliate opportunistically with hosts of different species, but others specialize on …

Functional morphology of cirri in the barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (crustacea: Balanidae)

LM Hindenberg, SN Gorb, S Büsse - Journal of Morphology, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Barnacles rely heavily on their mobile cirri for food capture because of the sessile lifestyle.
These filamentous food capturing devices are extended into the water current and perform …

Gene co‐option, duplication and divergence of cement proteins underpin the evolution of bioadhesives across barnacle life histories

YH Wong, N Dreyer, HC Liu, Y Lan, JJ Chen… - Molecular …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Acquisition of new genes often results in the emergence of novel functions and is a key step
in lineage‐specific adaptation. As a group of sessile crustaceans, barnacles establish …

Comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolutionary history of cement protein genes of barnacles from intertidal to deep‐sea hydrothermal vents

WK Lee, BKK Chan, JY Kim, SJ Ju… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Thoracican barnacles are a diverse group of marine organisms for which the availability of
genome assemblies is currently limited. In this study, we sequenced the genomes of two …

Plasticity and variation of cirral attributes in Chelonibia spp. barnacles

EC Hyatt, SG Dunbar - Bulletin of Marine Science, 2024‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Prior studies suggest that many species of intertidal Balanomorph barnacles exhibit plastic
responses to wave action and variable rates of water flow, with this environmental variability …

The shell proteome of the deep-sea barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum and the convergency in barnacle and molluscan shell proteins

YT Xu, J Taylor, HC Liu, N Dreyer, QQ Cho, Y Zhang… - 2023‏ - researchsquare.com
Background As a group of sessile crustaceans that were being misclassified as mollusks by
Carl Linnaeus, barnacles produce calcareous shell plates which, in most species, are …

[PDF][PDF] Barnacles Associated with Whales, Dolphins, Manatees, and Sea Turtles from the Puerto Rico Archipelago and Florida

AA Mignucci-Giannoni, J Cintrón-de Jesús… - Caribb Nat, 2022‏ - manatipr.org
Epizoic barnacles on marine megafauna encompass various species that maintain strict to
moderate host specificity. For the megafaunal hosts, knowing what particular suites of …

Five hundred million years to mobility

BKK Chan, YH Wong, NJ Robinson, C Lin, SP Yu… - Proceedings: Biological …, 2021‏ - JSTOR
Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as
barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became 'sessile'over …

フジツボが群居するしくみ 幼生を惹きつけるフェロモンと蛍光

松村清隆 - 化学と生物, 2023‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 フジツボは, 海洋生態系において重要な位置を占める付着生物であり, かつ人間にとっては,
船底や臨海プラントの海中構造物に付着する代表的な汚損生物でもある. 2008 …