Although there have been numerous isolated studies and reports of symbiotic relationships
of polychaetes and other marine animals, the only previous attempt to provide an overview …

Three sectors of the south Barbados prism between 1000 and 2000 m depth were explored
by the French submersible Nautile. Chemosynthesis-based benthic communities were …

Publisher Summary Hydrothermal vents, first discovered in 1977 at 2500m depth on the
Galapagos Rift, provide an example of such an alternative ecosystem supported by …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become a powerful tool in phylogenetic and
evolutionary studies. Here we applied NGS to recover two ribosomal RNA genes (18S and …

Motivation Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with
trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in …

El Pacífico oriental tropical incluye las provincias biogeográficas de Cortez, Mexicana y
Panameña; limita al norte con Bahía Magdalena (24 37'N: 112 09'O), México, y al sur con …

Polynoidae contains~ 900 species within 18 subfamilies, some of them restricted to the deep
sea. Macellicephalinae is the most diverse among these deep-sea subfamilies. In the …

Phyllodocida is a clade of errantiate annelids characterized by having ventral sensory palps,
anterior enlarged cirri, axial muscular proboscis, compound chaetae (if present) with a …

Clumps of Bathymodiolus thermophilus were collected from three discrete areas at the 'Rose
Garden'site on the Galapagos Rift using the deep submersible Alvin. Two mussel collections …

The global biogeography of polychaete worms has never been assessed previously. In the
present study, we studied the world distribution patterns of polychaetes based on datasets …