More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

Global climate change is projected to accelerate during the next century, altering oceanic
patterns in temperature, p H and oxygen concentrations. Documenting patterns of genetic …

Since 1998, Haliotis tuberculata mass mortalities have been occurring regularly in wild
abalone populations in France during their reproductive period and in conjunction with …

During the past 30 years, 42 molecular studies have been undertaken in New Zealand to
examine the phylogeography of coastal benthic invertebrates and plants. Here, we identify …

Genome scan approaches to detect footprints of directional selection in the genomes of wild
animal and plant populations have become popular tools to study local adaptation and …

Characterising adaptive genetic divergence among conspecific populations is often
achieved by studying genetic variation across defined environmental gradients. In marine …

In 2001, the white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) became the first marine invertebrate to be
listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Low densities and …

Overexploitation of marine species invariably results in population decline but can also have
indirect effects on ecological processes such as larval dispersal and recruitment that …

Morphological traits in Haliotidae may be highly variable and not consistently diagnostic for
species identification, highlighting the need for an integrative approach to the taxonomy of …

The black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii Leach, 1814) is a relatively large prosobranch
gastropod mollusc ranging from approximately Point Arena in northern California to Bahia …