Palynomorphs, including pollen and dinoflagellate cysts from marine sediments, can provide
a history of paleoclimate and paleoceanography. We present new palynological profiles …

Automated microscopy, image processing, and recognition using artificial intelligence is
getting a growing interest from the scientific community, as more and more research centres …

Background Phylogeographical approaches explain the genetic diversity of local organisms
in the context of their geological and geographic environments. Thus, genetic diversity can …

Investigating spatial pattern of adaptive variation and its underlying processes can inform
the adaptive potential distributed within species ranges, which is increasingly important in …

A new radiolarian image database was used to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
for automatic image classification. The focus was on 39 commonly occurring nassellarian …

The middle–late Miocene siliceous mudstones and siltstones of the Akita and Aomori
regions in Northern Honshu, Japan, provide an excellent geological record of the …

Abstract The Japan Sea was a semi-closed marginal sea mainly connected to the subarctic
northwestern Pacific via shallow seaways during the late Miocene. We use a multiple …

Abstract The East China Sea (ECS) is a shallow marginal sea that is sensitive to glacio-
eustatic sea-level changes and is influenced by warm oligotrophic water of the Kuroshio …

Polycystine radiolarian remains were collected during Expedition KS15-4 in a plankton tow
sample from 0 to 3000 m water depth at station (Sta.) 1 (30° 28.8537′ N, 132° 24.9532 …

The purplish bifurcate mussel Mytilisepta virgata is widely distributed and represents one of
the major components of the intertidal community in the northwestern Pacific (NWP). Here …