Marine Biology - Volume 153, Number 5 / febrero de 2008

Biodiversity of coastal polyclad flatworm assemblages in the wider Caribbean

Kate A. Rawlinson

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Body color change and serum steroid hormone levels throughout the process of sex change in the adult wrasse, Pseudolabrus sieboldi

Kohei Ohta, Mayumi Hirano, Takayuki Mine, Hiroshi Mizutani, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Michiya Matsuyama

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Circadian shelter occupancy patterns and predator–prey interactions of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters in a reef lagoon

Howard M. Weiss, Enrique Lozano-Álvarez and Patricia Briones-Fourzán

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Culturable actinobacteria isolated from marine sponge Iotrochota sp.

Shumei Jiang, Xiang Li, Long Zhang, Wei Sun, Shikun Dai, Lianwu Xie, Yonghong Liu and Kyung Jin Lee

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Cytoenzymatic investigation of intracellular digestion in the symbiont-bearing hydrothermal bivalve Bathymodiolus azoricus

Enikö Kádár, Sean A. Davis and Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha

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Cytogenetic studies in green mussel, Perna viridis (Mytiloida: Pteriomorphia), from West Coast of India

A. N. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, M. S. Khan and U. Goswami

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Does the effect of low temperature on osmoregulation by the prawn Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 explain winter migration offshore?

Urszula Janas and John I. Spicer

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Enlarged lantern size in similar-sized, sympatric, sibling species of Strongylocentrotid sea urchins: from phenotypic accommodation to functional adaptation for durophagy

Nils T. Hagen

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Histological investigation of the reproductive cycles of the limpets Patella vulgata and Patella ulyssiponensis

M. McCarthy, P. Woosnam and S. C. Culloty

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Important areas at sea for adult loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: satellite tracking corroborates findings from potentially biased sources

Judith A. Zbinden, Adrian Aebischer, Dimitris Margaritoulis and Raphaël Arlettaz

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Long-term changes in coral colony size distributions on Kenyan reefs under different management regimes and across the 1998 bleaching event

T. R. McClanahan, M. Ateweberhan and J. Omukoto

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Morphological and molecular data suggest a cosmopolitan distribution of the polychaete Proscoloplos cygnochaetus Day, 1954 (Annelida, Orbiniidae)

Achim Meyer, Christoph Bleidorn, Greg W. Rouse and Harald Hausen

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Multiple mating affects offspring size in the opisthobranch Chelidonura sandrana

Dennis Sprenger, Nils Anthes and Nico K. Michiels

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Persistent near-bottom aggregations of mesopelagic animals along the North Carolina and Virginia continental slopes

John V. Gartner, Kenneth J. Sulak, Steve W. Ross and Ann Marie Necaise

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Photosynthetic performance, oxidative damage and antioxidants in Cylindrotheca closterium in response to high irradiance, UVB radiation and salinity

F. Roncarati, J. W. Rijstenbil and R. Pistocchi

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Prey capture in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). The role of swimming behaviour

Marco Uttieri, Gustav-Adolf Paffenhöfer and Maria Grazia Mazzocchi

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Rates of fission, somatic growth and gonadal development of a fissiparous sea star, Allostichaster insignis , in New Zealand

Michael F. Barker and Robert E. Scheibling

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Real-time PCR assay for detection and relative quantification of Liocarcinus depurator larvae from plankton samples

Maria Pan, Alastair J. A. McBeath, Steve J. Hay, Graham J. Pierce and Carey O. Cunningham

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Relationships between RNA content and egg production rate in Acartia bifilosa (Copepoda, Calanoida) of different spatial and temporal origin

Towe Holmborn and Elena Gorokhova

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Sand and wave induced mortality in invasive ( Mytilus galloprovincialis ) and indigenous ( Perna perna ) mussels

G. I. Zardi, K. R. Nicastro, C. D. McQuaid and J. Erlandsson

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Spawning pattern and type of fecundity in relation to ovarian allometry in the round herring Etrumeus teres

Guido Plaza, Hideo Sakaji, Hitoshi Honda, Yuichi Hirota and Kazuya Nashida

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Strong variability in bacterioplankton abundance and production in central and western Bay of Bengal

Veronica Fernandes, Nagappa Ramaiah, Jane T. Paul, Sugandha Sardessai, R. Jyoti Babu and Mangesh Gauns

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Superoxide dismutase in the marine sponge Cliona celata

Daniela Marques, Ana I. Esteves, Marise Almeida, Joana Xavier and Madalena Humanes

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The role of marine aggregates in the ingestion of picoplankton-size particles by suspension-feeding molluscs

Dustin J. Kach and J. Evan Ward

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Using growth band autofluorescence to investigate large-scale variation in growth of the abalone Haliotis midae

Lee-Anne Proudfoot, Sven Kaehler and Christopher D. McQuaid

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Vertical distribution of early and competent larvae of Concholepas concholepas in two systems of Chilean inland seas

Carlos Molinet, Edwin Niklitschek, Carlos A. Moreno and Alejandra Arévalo

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