This paper reviews key aspects of the implementation of the Convention on Biological
Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Area (EBSA) process to date, anticipating …

The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS, the Acanthaster planci species group) is a highly fecund
predator of reef-building corals throughout the Indo-Pacific region. COTS population …

Neuropeptides are evolutionarily ancient mediators of neuronal signalling that regulate a
wide range of physiological processes and behaviours in animals. Neuropeptide signalling …

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are a morphologically diverse, ecologically important, and
economically valued clade of echinoderms; however, the understanding of the overall …

The power and throughput of next-generation sequencing is instigating a major
transformation in our understanding of evolution and classification of life on our planet. The …

In the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction, the Early Triassic (~ 251.9 to 247 million
years ago) is portrayed as an environmentally unstable interval characterized by several …

Neuropeptides are evolutionarily ancient mediators of neuronal signalling in nervous
systems. With recent advances in genomics/transcriptomics, an increasingly wide range of …

Summary Ambulacraria, comprising Hemichordata and Echinodermata [1], is closely related
to Chordata, making it integral to understanding chordate origins and polarizing chordate …

Nassariidae are a group of scavenging, predominantly marine, snails that are diversified on
soft bottoms as well as on rocky shores, and are the subject of numerous research papers in …

Exon-capture studies have typically been restricted to relatively shallow phylogenetic scales
due primarily to hybridization constraints. Here, we present an exon-capture system for an …