Genetics | Deep Sea News - Part 2

Adaptations Mating & Reproduction Music New Research

Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, Inhibitions

Kevin Zelnio July 2, 2010 Best of Zelnio Botryllus schlosseri Genetics Multiple Paternity Music polyandry sea squirt sperm Tunicate Urochordata

Yep, that’s right. They get it on with any male gamete that passes their way. They just don’t give a [rhymes with duck]. Boom chaka-laka-boom.…

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New Research New Species Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

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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Gene Regulators

Kevin Zelnio March 10, 2009 Gene Genetics Music Rap

This shizzle be grizzle fo’ my rizzle. Dizzle? Word out!

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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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