Foraminiferal growth and test development

J Hohenegger - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Growth of multichambered foraminifera can be studied by investigation of chamber volumes.
This approach is applicable to the vast majority of living and fossil species. Cell growth is …

Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend

C Schmidt, R Morard, A Almogi-Labin, AE Weinmann… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The eastern Mediterranean is a hotspot of biological invasions. Numerous species of Indo-
pacific origin have colonized the Mediterranean in recent times, including tropical symbiont …

TEST FUSION IN ADULT FORAMINIFERA: A REVIEW WITH NEW OBSERVATIONS OF AN EARLY EOCENE NUMMULITES SPECIMEN

C Ferràndez-Cañadell, A Briguglio… - The Journal of …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In foraminifera, so-called “double tests” usually arise due to abnormal growth originating
mainly from twinning, but may also be caused by irregularities in the early chambers and by …

Why did some larger benthic foraminifera become so large and flat?

P Hallock, M Seddighi - Sedimentology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biostromes and low‐relief bioherms, some of which are characterized by exceptionally
large, flat specimens of larger benthic foraminifera, are common in Palaeogene and …

Seasonal migration of marsupial megafauna in Pleistocene Sahul (Australia–new Guinea)

GJ Price, KJ Ferguson, GE Webb… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Seasonal two-way migration is an ecological phenomenon observed in a wide range of
large-bodied placental mammals, but is conspicuously absent in all modern marsupials …

Micro-CT 3D imaging reveals the internal structure of three abyssal xenophyophore species (Protista, Foraminifera) from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean

AJ Gooday, D Sykes, T Góral, MV Zubkov… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna
that accumulate large masses of waste material ('stercomare') within their agglutinated tests …

Volumetric analysis of benthic foraminifera: Intraspecific test size and growth patterns related to embryonic size and food resources

CL Belanger - Marine Micropaleontology, 2022 - Elsevier
Morphological variation in benthic foraminifera is often used to reconstruct
paleoenvironmental conditions and infer their physiological responses to environmental …

Stable Adult Growth but Reduced Asexual Fecundity in Marginopora vertebralis, under Global Climate Change Scenarios

CE Reymond, F Patel, S Uthicke - Journal of Earth Science, 2022 - Springer
Large benthic foraminifera are an integral component of shallow-water tropical habitats and
like many marine calcifiers, are susceptible to ocean acidification (OA) and ocean warming …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of Heterostegina depressa under natural and laboratory conditions

W Eder, A Briguglio, J Hohenegger - Marine Micropaleontology, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of micro-computed tomography (μCT) provides a unique opportunity to look inside
the shells of larger benthic foraminifera to investigate their structure by measuring linear and …

Depth distribution of modern larger benthic foraminifera offshore Brunei Darussalam

S Goeting, A Briguglio, W Eder, J Hohenegger… - Micropaleontology, 2018 - JSTOR
The present study provides new data on the diversity, abundance and depth distribution of
larger foraminifera (LBF) from a number of sites offshore Brunei Darussalam. This region …