Search Results - "Lambshead, P. John D."
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Low endemism, continued deep-shallow interchanges, and evidence for cosmopolitan distributions in free-living marine nematodes (order Enoplida)
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (18-12-2010)“…Nematodes represent the most abundant benthic metazoa in one of the largest habitats on earth, the deep sea. Characterizing major patterns of biodiversity…”
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Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (12-11-2010)“…The subclass Enoplia (Phylum Nematoda) is purported to be the earliest branching clade amongst all nematode taxa, yet the deep phylogeny of this important…”
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Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity
Published in Nature communications (01-10-2010)“…Biodiversity is of crucial importance for ecosystem functioning, sustainability and resilience, but the magnitude and organization of marine diversity at a…”
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Environmental metabarcoding reveals heterogeneous drivers of microbial eukaryote diversity in contrasting estuarine ecosystems
Published in The ISME Journal (01-05-2015)“…Assessing how natural environmental drivers affect biodiversity underpins our understanding of the relationships between complex biotic and ecological factors…”
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Biodiversity of littoral nematodes from two sites in the Gulf of California
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-07-2007)“…The Gulf of California, Mexico, consists of unique environmental conditions resulting in a rich array of biological diversity. Nematodes are present in most…”
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Species accumulation curves analysed by a class of null models discovered by Arrhenius
Published in Oikos (01-02-2005)“…Arrhenius is mainly given credit for his discovery of the log-log relationship between number of species and area, but in 1921 he invented the technique of…”
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Marine nematode deep-sea biodiversity - hyperdiverse or hype?
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-04-2003)“…Nematodes have been identified as a potentially hyperdiverse group and the deep sea as a potentially hyperdiverse environment (i.e. > 1 million species). A…”
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Exploitation of archived marine nematodes - a hot lysis DNA extraction protocol for molecular studies
Published in Zoologica scripta (01-01-2007)“…Museums and other research organizations around the world have large numbers of formalin‐fixed marine invertebrates in their collections. These have the…”
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Biodiversity of nematode assemblages from the region of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, an area of commercial mining interest
Published in BMC ecology (09-01-2003)“…The possibility for commercial mining of deep-sea manganese nodules is currently under exploration in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. Nematodes…”
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The impact of whale falls on nematode abundance in the deep sea
Published in Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers (01-05-2004)“…Abundance of nematode assemblages from the sediment surrounding an experimentally implanted whale carcass in the Santa Cruz Basin were investigated at 1.5 and…”
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Development and evaluation of a DNA-barcoding approach for the rapid identification of nematodes
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (29-08-2006)“…Free-living nematodes are abundant in all marine habitats, are highly diverse, and can be useful for monitoring anthropogenic impacts on the environment…”
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Phytodetritus and the abundance and biomass of abyssal nematodes in the central, equatorial Pacific
Published in Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers (01-02-2001)“…The abundance and biomass of abyssal (4300–5000 m) nematodes were investigated along a latitudinal gradient of phytodetritus deposition from 0 to 23°N in the…”
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Ecological Biodiversity of Marine Nematodes in Samples from Temperate, Tropical, and Deep-Sea Regions
Published in Conservation biology (01-12-1995)“…Little is known about the biodiversity of free-living nematodes. We have attempted to provide baseline information about the natural diversities (those not…”
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Latitudinal diversity patterns of deep-sea marine nematodes and organic fluxes: a test from the central equatorial Pacific
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (03-07-2002)“…The discovery of an apparently positive latitudinal gradient in nematode species richness over a limited geographic area in the North Atlantic, leading to the…”
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Nematode abundance at the oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea
Published in Deep-sea research. Part II, Topical studies in oceanography (2000)“…This paper supports the hypothesis that low oxygen does not influence deep-sea nematode abundance by investigating an oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) on the Oman…”
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Linking Biodiversity Above and Below the Marine Sediment–Water Interface
Published in Bioscience (01-12-2000)“…The organisms living on the ocean floor are linked to those living in the ocean above, but whether or how the biodiversity in these two realms is linked…”
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Global Change and Biodiversity Linkages across the Sediment–Water Interface
Published in Bioscience (01-12-2000)“…At least five anthropogenic processes--global climate change, coastal-zone eutrophication, species introductions, mariculture, and bottom fishing--are expected…”
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Nematode-specific PCR primers for the 18S small subunit rRNA gene
Published in Molecular ecology notes (01-09-2005)“…A set of polymerase chain reaction primers were designed, which amplify a c. 1 kb fragment of the 18S ribosomal DNA gene, and are specific to the phylum…”
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Physical reworking by near-bottom flow alters the metazoan meiofauna of Fieberling Guyot (northeast Pacific)
Published in Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers (01-12-1999)“…Although much of the deep sea is physically tranquil, some regions experience near-bottom flows that rework the surficial sediment. During periods of physical…”
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Global Change and Biodiversity Linkages across the Sediment–Water Interface: Human activities, modulated through global climate change, coastal-zone eutrophication, species introductions, mariculture, and bottom fishing, are expected to substantially influence biodiversity linkages across the sediment–water interface
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