Aquatic invertebrates are a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that
can find applications as pharmaceutics, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling …

Many soft animals like starfish have developed armors to protect their soft bodies in order to
survive in harsh environment. Inspired by this fact, special hydrogels with self‐growing …

Ocean acidification and ocean warming compromise the capacity of calcifying marine
organisms to generate and maintain their skeletons. While many marine calcifying …

We re-describe and confirm the validity of Ophiothrix trindadensis Tommasi, 1970
(Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). This is a native species from Brazil, however it lacked a type …

The detailed study of arm ossicles, particularly the lateral arm plates, is providing valuable
information in the elucidation of ophiuroid taxonomy. The present study describes in detail …

Recently, new insights have been gained from the ophiuroid skeleton that were instrumental
in the inference of a new phylogeny. The so far least studied ossicles are the adradial and …

Despite descending from heavily calcified ancestors, the holothuroid skeleton is fully internal
and composed of microscopic ossicles and a ring of plates bound by connective tissue, the …

Biomineralization is ubiquitous in both unicellular and multicellular living systems [,] and has
remained elusive due to a limited understanding of physicochemical and biomolecular …

The continuous increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially carbon dioxide
(CO2), since the beginning of global industrialization has resulted in significant alterations in …

La Bioética es una disciplina que nace de la reflexión acerca de la intervención de la
tecnología en el campo de la medicina, en la que los principales sujetos de …