The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future

AJ Richardson, A Bakun, GC Hays… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Human-induced stresses of overfishing, eutrophication, climate change, translocation and
habitat modification appear to be promoting jellyfish (pelagic cnidarian and ctenophore) …

Evolutionary origins of toll-like receptor signaling

JJ Brennan, TD Gilmore - Molecular biology and evolution, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are transmembrane pattern recognition receptors that are best
known for their roles in innate immunity for the detection of and defense against microbial …

Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics

CS McFadden, LP Van Ofwegen… - Bulletin of the Society of …, 2022 - bhacjournal.org
The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia includes over 3500 nominal species of soft corals and
gorgonian sea fans, many of which serve as critical foundation species in benthic marine …

Phylogenomics, origin, and diversification of Anthozoans (Phylum Cnidaria)

CS McFadden, AM Quattrini, MR Brugler… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Anthozoan cnidarians (corals and sea anemones) include some of the world's most
important foundation species, capable of building massive reef complexes that support …

[图书][B] Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

ZQ Zhang - 2011 - books.google.com
Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

E Kayal, B Bentlage, M Sabrina Pankey… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The phylogeny of Cnidaria has been a source of debate for decades,
during which nearly all-possible relationships among the major lineages have been …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

[图书][B] Cold-water corals: the biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats

JM Roberts - 2009 - books.google.com
" There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-
ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water …

Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within Cnidaria

F Zapata, FE Goetz, SA Smith, M Howison, S Siebert… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of
morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved …

Questioning the rise of gelatinous zooplankton in the world's oceans

RH Condon, WM Graham, CM Duarte, KA Pitt… - Bioscience, 2012 - academic.oup.com
During the past several decades, high numbers of gelatinous zooplankton species have
been reported in many estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Coupled with media-driven public …