Sexual selection and its evolutionary consequences in female animals

RM Hare, LW Simmons - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For sexual selection to act on a given sex, there must exist variation in the reproductive
success of that sex as a result of differential access to mates or fertilisations. The …

Integrative taxonomy of the Micrura alaskensis Coe, 1901 species complex (Nemertea: Heteronemertea), with descriptions of a new genus Maculaura gen. nov. and …

TC Hiebert, S Maslakova - Zoological Science, 2015 - BioOne
Micrura alaskensis is a common intertidal heteronemertean known from eastern and
northwest Pacific (Alaska to Ensenada, Mexico and Akkeshi, Japan, respectively). It is an …

Nemertea

J von Döhren - Evolutionary developmental biology of invertebrates 2 …, 2015 - Springer
Nemertea is a clade of unsegmented, worm-shaped Spiralia comprising about 1.300
described species (Fig. 8.1 A–F; Kajihara et al. 2008). The vast majority inhabits marine …

Microbiota Associated With Ototyphlonemertes Species (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea, Monostilifera, Ototyphlonemertidae) Reveal Evidence of Phylosymbiosis

F Leasi, EM Eckert, JL Norenburg… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phylosymbiosis, the association between the phylogenetic relatedness of hosts and the
composition of their microbial communities, is a widespread phenomenon in diverse animal …

Phylogenetic placement of a new hoplonemertean species commensal on ascidians

J Junoy, SCS Andrade, G Giribet - Invertebrate Systematics, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
The hoplonemertean Vieitezia luzmurubeae, gen. et sp. nov. is described from specimens
collected in a national park on the north-west Iberian Peninsula, the Parque Nacional …

Observations and experiments on the biology and life history of Riseriellus occultus (Heteronemertea: Lineidae)

P Beckers, T Bartolomaeus, J von Döhren - Zoological science, 2015 - BioOne
Studies on the biology and life history of nemerteans are scarce, mostly because these
animals are nocturnal. In order to broaden the knowledge base on the life history of …

On the identity of two Antarctic brooding nemerteans: redescription of Antarctonemertes valida (Bürger, 1893) and description of a new species in the genus …

S Taboada, J Junoy, SCS Andrade, G Giribet… - Polar Biology, 2013 - Springer
Nemerteans (ribbon worms) constitute an abundant and occasionally conspicuous group of
benthic invertebrates in the Southern Ocean. Although recent work has confirmed that this …

Spermatozoa and Spermatogenesis in the Ribbon Worm Asteronemertes gibsoni (Hoplonemertea, Oerstediidae), a Symbiont of Sea Stars

OV Yurchenko, AV Chernyshev - Journal of Morphology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the phylum Nemertea, the class Hoplonemertea (former Enopla) comprises the largest
number of studied species with complex spermatozoa. Asteronemertes gibsoni Chernyshev …

A population without females: males of Baseodiscus delineatus (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) reproduce asexually by fragmentation

J Ikenaga, N Hookabe, H Kohtsuka, M Yoshida… - Zoological science, 2019 - BioOne
The valenciniid heteronemertean Baseodiscus delineatus was originally described from
Naples, Italy, and shows a circumglobal distribution from tropical to temperate seas in both …

Biological and chemical diversity in Antarctica: from new species to new natural products

C Avila - Biodiversity, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Antarctica is a still unexplored area in many respects, among which biological diversity and,
even more so, chemical diversity are important challenges. Over recent years, our research …