Global diversity and phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata)

CL Mah, DB Blake - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Members of the Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata), popularly known as starfish or sea
stars, are ecologically important and diverse members of marine ecosystems in all of the …

The carbon dioxide vents of Ischia, Italy, a natural system to assess impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems: an overview of research and comparisons …

SA Foo, M Byrne, E Ricevuto… - … and marine biology, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
As the ocean continues to take up carbon dioxide (CO2), it is difficult to predict the future of
marine ecosystems. Natural CO2 vent sites, mainly of volcanic origin, that provide a pH …

Impact of ocean warming and ocean acidification on marine invertebrate life history stages: vulnerabilities and potential for persistence in a changing ocean

R Gibson, R Atkinson, J Gordon… - Oceanogr Mar Biol …, 2011 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Global warming and increased atmospheric CO2 are causing the oceans to warm, decrease
in pH and become hypercapnic. These stressors have deleterious impacts on marine …

[KNIHA][B] The comparative embryology of sponges

AV Ereskovsky - 2010 - books.google.com
One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to
multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a …

Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm

AN Ostrovsky, S Lidgard, DP Gordon… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Matrotrophy, the continuous extra‐vitelline supply of nutrients from the parent to the progeny
during gestation, is one of the masterpieces of nature, contributing to offspring fitness and …

The evolutionary ecology of offspring size in marine invertebrates

DJ Marshall, MJ Keough - Advances in marine biology, 2007 - Elsevier
Intraspecific variation in offspring size is of fundamental ecological and evolutionary
importance. The level of provisioning an organism receives from its mother can have far …

Advances in marine biology: endogenous and exogenous control of gametogenesis and spawning in echinoderms

A Mercier, JF Hamel - 2009 - books.google.com
Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by AJ Southward
(Marine Biological Association, UK), PA Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association …

Epiphytic Planctomycetes communities associated with three main groups of macroalgae

J Bondoso, F Godoy-Vitorino, V Balague… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Planctomycetes, a unique group of widespread and understudied bacteria, are known to be
associated with macroalgae. The temporal dynamics and the host-specific association of …

The ecological and evolutionary importance of maternal effects in the sea

DJ Marshall, RM Allen, AJ Crean - Oceanography and Marine …, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia E-
mail: d. marshall1@ uq. edu. au, richard. allen@ uq. edu. au, a. crean@ uq. edu. auAbstract …

[PDF][PDF] Brooding and species diversity in the Southern Ocean: selection for brooders or speciation within brooding clades?

JS Pearse, R Mooi, SJ Lockhart… - Smithsonian at the poles …, 2009 - repository.si.edu
We summarize and evaluate explanations that have been proposed to account for the
unusually high number of benthic marine invertebrate species in the Southern Ocean with …