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Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species

Kevin Zelnio August 20, 2009 Alvinocarididae Alvinocaris Alvinocaris komaii Back-Arc Basin Best of Zelnio COI Eastern Lau Spreading Center ELSC fiji Genetics Hydrothermal Vent Lau Basin Morphology Shrimp Systematics taxonomy Tomoyuki Komai

Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in…

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Adaptations

From The Desk of Zelnio: Alviniconcha hessleri

Kevin Zelnio March 28, 2007 Alviniconcha Back-Arc Basin Bacteria Best of Zelnio Biofilm Chemoautotrophy Gastropoda Hemocyanin Hydrothermal Vent Mixotrophy Mollusca Proteobacteria Provanna Provannidae Snail Thermo-Chemico Tolerance

Alviniconcha hessleri (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Provannidae) When you think of hydrothermal vents, what comes to mind first? Is it the gushing black smoke out of a…

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