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High Abundances of Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments: Evidence from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by Cunningham, Eoghan M, Ehlers, Sonja M, Dick, Jaimie T. A, Sigwart, Julia D, Linse, Katrin, Dick, Jon J, Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos

“…Plastic pollution in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been recorded in scientific literature since the 1980s; however, the presence of microplastic…”
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Environmentally Accurate Microplastic Levels and Their Absence from Exposure Studies by Cunningham, Eoghan M, Sigwart, Julia D

“…Abstract Microplastics (synthetic polymers; <5 mm) are ubiquitous, in the environment and in the news. The associated effects of microplastics on flora and…”
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Zoology: Molluscs All Beneath the Sun, One Shell, Two Shells, More, or None by Sigwart, Julia D.

“…One great remaining problem in evolutionary biology is to understand which common ancestor could have given rise to descendants as different as giant squid and…”
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Effects of conventional and biodegradable microplastics on a marine ecosystem engineer (Arenicola marina) and sediment nutrient cycling by Green, Dannielle Senga, Boots, Bas, Sigwart, Julia, Jiang, Shan, Rocha, Carlos

“…Effects of microplastic pollution on benthic organisms and ecosystem services provided by sedimentary habitats are largely unknown. An outdoor mesocosm…”
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Molluscan phylogenomics requires strategically selected genomes by Sigwart, Julia D, Lindberg, David R, Chen, Chong, Sun, Jin

“…The extraordinary diversity in molluscan body plans, and the genomic mechanisms that enable it, remains one of the great questions of evolution. The eight…”
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Why is there no service to support taxonomy? by Sigwart, Julia D., Chen, Chong, Tilic, Ekin, Vences, Miguel, Riehl, Torben

“…Increasing complexity and specialisation of modern sciences has led to increasingly collaborative publications, as well as the involvement of commercial…”
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Unlocking the potential of marine biodiscovery by Sigwart, Julia D, Blasiak, Robert, Jaspars, Marcel, Jouffray, Jean-Baptiste, Tasdemir, Deniz

“…The tremendous diversity of life in the ocean has proven to be a rich source of inspiration for drug discovery, with success rates for marine natural products…”
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Biodiversity Assessment, DNA Barcoding, and the Minority Majority by Sigwart, Julia D., Garbett, Amy

“…The majority of species on Earth are in “under-studied” groups, and indeed probably the majority of species remain undiscovered and undescribed. Species are…”
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Continuous and Regular Expansion of a Distributed Visual System in the Eyed Chiton Tonicia lebruni by Sigwart, Julia D., Sumner-Rooney, Lauren

“…Chitons have a distinctive armature of eight articulating dorsal shells. In all living species, the shell valves are covered by a dense array of sensory pores…”
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Assessing the extinction risk of insular, understudied marine species by Thomas, Elin A., Böhm, Monika, Pollock, Caroline, Chen, Chong, Seddon, Mary, Sigwart, Julia D.

“…Hydrothermal vents are rare deep‐sea oases that house faunal assemblages with a similar density of life as coral reefs. Only approximately 600 of these…”
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Benchmarking Oxford Nanopore read assemblers for high-quality molluscan genomes by Sun, Jin, Li, Runsheng, Chen, Chong, Sigwart, Julia D, Kocot, Kevin M

“…Choosing the optimum assembly approach is essential to achieving a high-quality genome assembly suitable for comparative and evolutionary genomic…”
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Phylogenomic analyses shed light on the relationships of chiton superfamilies and shell-eye evolution by Liu, Xu, Sigwart, Julia D., Sun, Jin

“…Mollusca is the second-largest animal phylum with over 100,000 extant species representing eight classes. Across 1000 extant species in the class…”
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The IUCN Species Survival Commission launches a new Red List Authority to assess marine invertebrates by Sigwart, Julia D., Pollom, Riley, Böhm, Monika

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“Dreamer holothurians” in the north by Sigwart, Julia D., Ogawa, Akito, Chen, Chong

“…See PDF.] Still frames from video images of two individuals of Enypniastes eximia recorded on 8 August 2022 on the southern rim of the Aleutian Trench, off…”
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Insights into the genome of the 'Loco' Concholepas concholepas (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from low-coverage short-read sequencing: genome size, ploidy, transposable elements, nuclear RNA gene operon, mitochondrial genome, and phylogenetic placement in the family Muricidae by Baeza, J Antonio, González, M Teresa, Sigwart, Julia D, Greve, Carola, Pirro, Stacy

“…The Peruvian 'chanque' or Chilean 'loco' Concholepas concholepas is an economically, ecologically, and culturally important muricid gastropod heavily exploited…”
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The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour by Sun, Jin, Chen, Chong, Miyamoto, Norio, Li, Runsheng, Sigwart, Julia D., Xu, Ting, Sun, Yanan, Wong, Wai Chuen, Ip, Jack C. H., Zhang, Weipeng, Lan, Yi, Bissessur, Dass, Watsuji, Tomo-o, Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama, Takaki, Yoshihiro, Ikeo, Kazuho, Fujii, Nobuyuki, Yoshitake, Kazutoshi, Qiu, Jian-Wen, Takai, Ken, Qian, Pei-Yuan

“…The Scaly-foot Snail, Chrysomallon squamiferum , presents a combination of biomineralised features, reminiscent of enigmatic early fossil taxa with complex…”
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Aesthete Pattern Diversity in Chiton Clades (Mollusca: Polyplacophora): Balancing Sensory Structures and Strength in Valve Architecture by Ampuero, Andre, Vončina, Katarzyna, Parkinson, Dilworth Y., Sigwart, Julia D.

“…ABSTRACT Chitons possess the most elaborate system of shell pores found in any hard‐shelled invertebrate. Although chitons possess some anteriorly located…”
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Spatiotemporal changes in riverine input into the Eocene North Sea revealed by strontium isotope and barium analysis of bivalve shells by Kniest, Jorit F., Evans, David, Gerdes, Axel, Cantine, Marjorie, Todd, Jonathan A., Sigwart, Julia D., Vellekoop, Johan, Müller, Wolfgang, Voigt, Silke, Raddatz, Jacek

“…Reconstructing hydrological conditions of past warm periods, such as the Eocene ‘hot house’ provides empirical data to compare to state of the art climate…”
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Size matters: plasticity in metabolic scaling shows body-size may modulate responses to climate change by Carey, Nicholas, Sigwart, Julia D.

“…Variability in metabolic scaling in animals, the relationship between metabolic rate (R) and body mass (M), has been a source of debate and controversy for…”
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Cryptic niche switching in a chemosymbiotic gastropod by Chen, Chong, Linse, Katrin, Uematsu, Katsuyuki, Sigwart, Julia D.

“…Life stages of some animals, including amphibians and insects, are so different that they have historically been seen as different species. ‘Metamorphosis’…”
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