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Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: Microplastics in facial cleansers by Fendall, Lisa S., Sewell, Mary A.

“…Plastics pollution in the ocean is an area of growing concern, with research efforts focusing on both the macroplastic (>5mm) and microplastic (<5mm)…”
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Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? by Sinclair, Brent J., Marshall, Katie E., Sewell, Mary A., Levesque, Danielle L., Willett, Christopher S., Slotsbo, Stine, Dong, Yunwei, Harley, Christopher D. G., Marshall, David J., Helmuth, Brian S., Huey, Raymond B.

“…Thermal performance curves (TPCs), which quantify how an ectotherm's body temperature (Tb) affects its performance or fitness, are often used in an attempt to…”
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Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three Aotearoa New Zealand asteroid species by Hewson, Ian, Sewell, Mary A

“…Reports the discovery of viruses and protists associated with grossly normal specimens of three asteroid species (Patiriella regularis, Stichaster australis,…”
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The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism-to-Ecosystem Perspective by Hofmann, Gretchen E, Barry, James P, Edmunds, Peter J, Gates, Ruth D, Hutchins, David A, Klinger, Terrie, Sewell, Mary A

“…Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, poses a serious threat to marine organisms in tropical, open-ocean, coastal,…”
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The role of the hyaline spheres in sea cucumber metamorphosis: lipid storage via transport cells in the blastocoel by Peters-Didier, Josefina, Sewell, Mary A

“…For echinoderms with feeding larvae, metamorphic and post-settlement success may be highly dependent on larval nutrition and the accumulation of energetic…”
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Rapid adaptation to food availability by a dopamine-mediated morphogenetic response by Adams, Diane K., Sewell, Mary A., Angerer, Robert C., Angerer, Lynne M.

“…Food can act as a powerful stimulus, eliciting metabolic, behavioural and developmental responses. These phenotypic changes can alter ecological and…”
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Organically selective movement and deposit-feeding in juvenile sea cucumber, Australostichopus mollis determined in situ and in the laboratory by Slater, Matthew J., Jeffs, Andrew G., Sewell, Mary A.

“…Highly accurate methods were used to investigate varying types of feeding selectivity in juvenile sea cucumber, Australostichopus mollis both in situ and in…”
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Pelagic propagule duration and developmental mode: reassessment of a fading link by Mercier, Annie, Sewell, Mary A., Hamel, Jean-François

“…Aim: As the main or sole motile stage of many aquatic taxa, propagules play a central role in their population dynamics, macroevolution and biogeography. The…”
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Growth attenuation with developmental schedule progression in embryos and early larvae of Sterechinus neumayeri raised under elevated CO2 by Yu, Pauline C, Sewell, Mary A, Matson, Paul G, Rivest, Emily B, Kapsenberg, Lydia, Hofmann, Gretchen E

“…The Southern Ocean, a region that will be an ocean acidification hotspot in the near future, is home to a uniquely adapted fauna that includes a diversity of…”
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Perspective: Something Old, Something New? Review of Wasting and Other Mortality in Asteroidea (Echinodermata) by Hewson, Ian, Sullivan, Brooke, Jackson, Elliot W., Xu, Qiang, Long, Hao, Lin, Chenggang, Quijano Cardé, Eva Marie, Seymour, Justin, Siboni, Nachshon, Jones, Matthew R. L., Sewell, Mary A.

“…Asteroids (Echinodermata) experience mass mortality events that have the potential to cause dramatic shifts in ecosystem structure. Asteroid wasting describes…”
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Long-term study of the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming on the mottled brittle star Ophionereis fasciata by Márquez-Borrás, Francisco, Sewell, Mary A

“…The global ocean is rapidly changing, posing a substantial threat to the viability of marine populations due to the co-occurrence of multiple drivers, such as…”
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Detecting Phytoplankton Cell Viability Using NIR Raman Spectroscopy and PCA by Novikova, Nina I, Matthews, Hannah, Williams, Isabelle, Sewell, Mary A, Nieuwoudt, Michel K, Simpson, M. Cather, Broderick, Neil G. R

“…Raman spectroscopy has long been suggested as a potentially fast and sensitive method to monitor phytoplankton abundance and composition in marine…”
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Low coverage sequencing of three echinoderm genomes: the brittle star Ophionereis fasciata, the sea star Patiriella regularis, and the sea cucumber Australostichopus mollis by Long, Kyle A, Nossa, Carlos W, Sewell, Mary A, Putnam, Nicholas H, Ryan, Joseph F

“…There are five major extant groups of Echinodermata: Crinoidea (feather stars and sea lillies), Ophiuroidea (brittle stars and basket stars), Asteroidea (sea…”
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Using DNA barcoding and phylogenetics to identify Antarctic invertebrate larvae: Lessons from a large scale study by Heimeier, Dorothea, Lavery, Shane, Sewell, Mary A.

“…Ecological studies of the diversity and distribution of marine planktonic larvae are increasingly depending on molecular methods for accurate taxonomic…”
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A comparison of egg yolk lipid constituents between parasitic Common Cuckoos and their hosts by Igic, Branislav, Zarate, Erica, Sewell, Mary A, Moskát, Csaba, Cassey, Phillip, Rutila, Jarkko, Grim, Tomáš, Shawkey, Matthew D, Hauber, Mark E

“…Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) are obligate brood parasites that lay their eggs in nests of other species and use these hosts to raise their parasitic…”
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Description and ecophysiology of a new species of Syndesmis Silliman, 1881 (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae) from the sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes, 1846) Mortensen, 1943 in New Zealand by Monnens, Marlies, Frost, Emily J., Clark, Miriam, Sewell, Mary A., Vanhove, Maarten P.M., Artois, Tom

“…A new rhabdocoel of the genus Syndesmis Silliman, 1881 (Umagillidae) is described from the intestine of the New Zealand sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus…”
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Rotavirus NSP4 is secreted from infected cells as an oligomeric lipoprotein and binds to glycosaminoglycans on the surface of non-infected cells by Didsbury, Alicia, Wang, Carol, Verdon, Daniel, Sewell, Mary A, McIntosh, Julie D, Taylor, John A

“…Nonstructural glycoprotein 4 (NSP4) encoded by rotavirus is the only viral protein currently believed to function as an enterotoxin. NSP4 is synthesized as an…”
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Ocean acidification impacts sperm swimming performance and pHi in the New Zealand sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus by Hudson, Michael E., Sewell, Mary A.

“…ABSTRACT In sea urchins, spermatozoa are stored in the gonads in hypercapnic conditions (pH<7.0). During spawning, sperm are diluted in seawater of pH>8.0, and…”
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Evolution of Maternal Provisioning and Development in the Ophiuroidea: Egg Size, Larval Form and Parental Care by Byrne, Maria, Cisternas, Paula, O'Hara, Timothy D, Sewell, Mary A, Selvakumaraswamy, Paulina

“…The Ophiuroidea is the most speciose class of echinoderms and has the greatest diversity of larval forms, but we know less about the evolution of development…”
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Evolution of maternal lipid provisioning strategies in echinoids with non-feeding larvae: selection for high-quality juveniles by Byrne, Maria, Sewell, Mary A.

“…In marine invertebrates where larval planktotrophy is the ancestral life history, the evolutionary switch to lecithotrophy depended on modifications of…”
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