Dispersal | Deep Sea News

Crustacean Evolution Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Deep-Sea Barnacle Genomics. Because, #DarwinDay

Holly Bik February 12, 2016 Barnacle Charles Darwin Darwin Day Dispersal evolution genomics Hydrothermal Vent Radiation

When Darwin got down and dirty with his work on Barnacles (1846-1854), everyone still assumed there was no life at all in the deep sea.…

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Adaptations Mating & Reproduction New Research

Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex

Kevin Zelnio October 8, 2010 Best of Zelnio Bio-foam Dispersal larvae larval dispersal Marine Reserve Design Pyura praeputialis sea squirt SLOSS Spawning Surfactants Tidal Channels Tunicate

Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography…

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Adaptations Conservation & Environment New Research Organisms

Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion

Kevin Zelnio June 30, 2008 Asexual Ballast Best of Zelnio Dispersal Genetics Heterochrony Hydroid Hydromedusa Invasion Medusa Phenotypic Plasticity Polyp Reproduction Transdifferentiation Turritopsis

Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s…

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