#octocorals — Public Fediverse posts

The Borealis Mud Volcano: A hidden sanctuary for marine biodiversity https://phys.org/news/2025-01-borealis-mud-volcano-hidden-sanctuary.html

Sanctuary for vulnerable #Arctic species at the Borealis Mud Volcano: Giuliana Panieri et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55712-x

"the carbonate crusts that characterized Borealis provide a suitably hard substrate for species of #anemones, #serpulids, #demosponges, and sparse #octocorals."

#DeepSea #Animals #Sponges #Corals

Glowing #SeaCreatures Have Been Lighting Up the #Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/glowing-sea-creatures-have-been-lighting-up-the-oceans-for-more-than-half-a-billion-years-180984214/ by Riley Black

#Evolution of #bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"New research on branching #animals known as #octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, pushing back previous oldest dated example https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bioluminescence-evolved-animals-million-years.html

#Evolution of bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on #Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"#Bioluminescence first evolved in #animals at least 540 million years ago in #octocorals... The results push back the previous record for the trait's oldest dated emergence in animals by nearly 300 million years"

New article on the #genetic structure #Paramuricea #octocorals: with #microsatellites and #transcriptome data we study the Atlantic/Mediterranean divergence, and a cryptic lineage in the Atlantic. More information here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.9740

New article on the #genetic structure #Paramuricea #octocorals: with #microsatellites and #transcriptome data we study the Atlantic/Mediterranean divergence, and a cryptic lineage in the Atlantic. More information here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.9740

New article on the #genetic structure #Paramuricea #octocorals: with #microsatellites and #transcriptome data we study the Atlantic/Mediterranean divergence, and a cryptic lineage in the Atlantic. More information here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.9740

New article on the #genetic structure #Paramuricea #octocorals: with #microsatellites and #transcriptome data we study the Atlantic/Mediterranean divergence, and a cryptic lineage in the Atlantic. More information here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.9740