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Sponges form symbioses with a wide array of mesofauna including polychaetes, crustaceans, brittle stars, and bivalves. These organisms use the sponge for food and shelter, but their effect on the sponge is largely unknown. The...
Differences in behavior and physiology can arise and change because of variation in life history strategies or differences in discrete polymorphisms. These differences can result from the indirect effects of predation, or responses to...
The smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) is a critically endangered species endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. The only known viable populations have been found along the coast of Florida as well as in the coastal areas of the Bahamas. In...
Ecophysiology of Ectothermic Ecosystem Engineers: Bioenergetic Effects of Climate and Food on Dominant Consumers and Their Consequences for Coastal Ecosystems
This body of work explores dynamics of temperate marine grazers that are sensitive to food availability and inhabit regions with dramatic contemporary variation in abiotic conditions due to nearshore upwelling. Climate change projections...
Investigating Biologic Repeatability at Different Biological Levels: The Genomic and Phenotypic Response to Parallel Phenotypic Artificial Selection in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans
Repeated evolution in biology is widespread among morphologic forms but also recognized at essentially all biological levels. Organisms achieving the same functional goal is reported at the level of simple biochemical pathways, complex...
The ecological and evolutionary factors influencing whether hermaphrodites inbreed or outbreed via self-fertilization or outcrossing has long been a theoretical and empirical focus. Recent theory predicts that the conditions favoring the...
Non-random mating is presumed to be an important mechanism that allows for the maintenance of genetic variation. Assortative mating has been studied extensively in organisms that possess defined ways in which sperm is transferred to eggs...
Natal dispersal, the period where an organism moves from its birthplace to the area where it settles and attempts to breed, may have significant consequences for individual fitness. Individuals vary in both the decision to initiate...
Coral reef ecosystems provide essential goods and services to civilizations around theworld but are threatened by local and global anthropogenic disturbances. As we enter the United Nation’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable...
Many venom proteins have presumably been convergently recruited by taxa from diverse venomous lineages. These toxic proteins have characteristics that allow them to remain stable in solution and have a high propensity for toxic effects...
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