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An assessment of people living by coral reefs over space and time by Sing Wong, Amy, Vrontos, Spyridon, Taylor, Michelle L.

“…Human populations near ecosystems are used as both a proxy for dependency on ecosystems, and conversely to estimate threats. Consequently, the number of people…”
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Species replacement dominates megabenthos beta diversity in a remote seamount setting by Victorero, Lissette, Robert, Katleen, Robinson, Laura F., Taylor, Michelle L., Huvenne, Veerle A. I.

“…Seamounts are proposed to be hotspots of deep-sea biodiversity, a pattern potentially arising from increased productivity in a heterogeneous landscape leading…”
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The global distribution of seamounts based on 30 arc seconds bathymetry data by Yesson, Chris, Clark, Malcolm R., Taylor, Michelle L., Rogers, Alex D.

“…Seamounts and knolls are ‘undersea mountains’, the former rising more than 1000 m from the seafloor. These features provide important habitats for aquatic…”
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Global habitat suitability of cold‐water octocorals by Yesson, Chris, Taylor, Michelle L, Tittensor, Derek P, Davies, Andrew J, Guinotte, John, Baco, Amy, Black, Julie, Hall‐Spencer, Jason M, Rogers, Alex D

“…Aim Three‐quarters of Octocorallia species are found in deep waters. These cold‐water octocoral colonies can form a major constituent of structurally complex…”
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Evolutionary dynamics of a common sub-Antarctic octocoral family by Taylor, Michelle L., Rogers, Alex D.

“…[Display omitted] •Primnoidae supported as monophyletic.•Suggested Pacific origin for the family Primnoidae.•High species diversity in the Antarctic because of…”
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An illustrated key to the species of the genus Narella (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Primnoidae) by Cairns, Stephen D, Taylor, Michelle L

“…A history of the description of the 50 valid species of is given, beginning with the first species described in 1860. To help differentiate the various…”
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Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea by Frinault, Bétina A V, Christie, Frazer D W, Fawcett, Sarah E, Flynn, Raquel F, Hutchinson, Katherine A, Montes Strevens, Chloë M J, Taylor, Michelle L, Woodall, Lucy C, Barnes, David K A

“…Ice shelves cover ~1.6 million km of the Antarctic continental shelf and are sensitive indicators of climate change. With ice-shelf retreat, aphotic marine…”
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Influence of altitude on tropical marine habitat classification using imagery from fixed‐wing, water‐landing UAVs by Ellis, Sophia L., Taylor, Michelle L., Schiele, Melissa, Letessier, Tom B., Horning, Ned, Poursanidis, Dimitris

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are cost‐effective remote sensing tools useful for generating very high‐resolution (VHR) aerial imagery. Habitat maps generated…”
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Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Promoting Marine Scientific Research and Enabling Equitable Benefit Sharing by Rogers, Alex D., Baco, Amy, Escobar-Briones, Elva, Currie, Duncan, Gjerde, Kristina, Gobin, Judith, Jaspars, Marcel, Levin, Lisa, Linse, Katrin, Rabone, Muriel, Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Sellanes, Javier, Shank, Timothy M., Sink, Kerry, Snelgrove, Paul V. R., Taylor, Michelle L., Wagner, Daniel, Harden-Davies, Harriet

“…Growing human activity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) is driving increasing impacts on the biodiversity of this vast area of the ocean. As a…”
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No evidence for heritability of male mating latency or copulation duration across social environments in Drosophila melanogaster by Taylor, Michelle L, Evans, Jonathan P, Garcia-Gonzalez, Francisco

“…A key assumption underpinning major models of sexual selection is the expectation that male sexual attractiveness is heritable. Surprisingly, however,…”
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Multiple mating increases female fitness in Drosophila simulans by Taylor, Michelle L., Wigmore, Clare, Hodgson, David J., Wedell, Nina, Hosken, David J.

“…While polyandry is essentially ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, the net fitness consequences of multiple mating remain the subject of much debate. In some…”
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Sexual selection and female fitness in Drosophila simulans by Taylor, Michelle L, Wedell, Nina, Hosken, David J

“…There is a current debate over the net fitness consequences of sexual selection. Do preferred males increase female fitness or are these males manipulating…”
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Polyandry in nature: a global analysis by Taylor, Michelle L., Price, Tom A.R., Wedell, Nina

“…•Polyandry is ubiquitous and common, but remains extremely variable.•Polyandry may be more common in northern populations, but needs verifying.•Polyandry…”
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Coral reef carnivorous fish biomass relates to oceanographic features depending on habitat and prey preference by Sartori, Greta, Taylor, Michelle L., Sebastian, Pascal, Prasetyo, Rahmadi

“…Carnivorous fish are a key part of the Indonesian human population sustenance, and it is important to design marine protected areas that include environmental…”
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The global distribution of deep-water Antipatharia habitat by Yesson, Chris, Bedford, Faye, Rogers, Alex D., Taylor, Michelle L.

“…Antipatharia are a diverse group of corals with many species found in deep water. Many Antipatharia are habitat for associates, have extreme longevity and some…”
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Corrigendum to “Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae)” [Mol. Phylogen. Evolut. 188 (2023) 107910] by Morrissey, Declan, Gordon, Jessica D, Saso, Emma, Bilewitch, Jaret P., Taylor, Michelle L., Hayes, Vonda, McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., Louise Allcock, A.

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A modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeleton by Stolarski, Jarosław, Coronado, Ismael, Murphy, Jack G., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Janiszewska, Katarzyna, Mazur, Maciej, Gothmann, Anne M., Bouvier, Anne-Sophie, Marin-Carbonne, Johanna, Taylor, Michelle L., Quattrini, Andrea M., McFadden, Catherine S., Higgins, John A., Robinson, Laura F., Meibom, Anders

“…One of the most conserved traits in the evolution of biomineralizing organisms is the taxon-specific selection of skeletal minerals. All modern scleractinian…”
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Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae) by Morrissey, Declan, Gordon, Jessica D, Saso, Emma, Bilewitch, Jaret P., Taylor, Michelle L., Hayes, Vonda, McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., Allcock, A. Louise

“…[Display omitted] •For the first time, deep nodes are resolved within the Keratoisididae, a prolific deep-sea family of octocorals.•Nuclear phylogenies built…”
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Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles' frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae) by Labisko, Jim, Griffiths, Richard A, Chong-Seng, Lindsay, Bunbury, Nancy, Maddock, Simon T, Bradfield, Kay S, Taylor, Michelle L, Groombridge, Jim J

“…Abstract Cryptic diversity corresponding with island of origin has been previously reported in the endemic, geographically restricted sooglossid frogs of the…”
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The heritability of attractiveness by Taylor, Michelle L., Wedell, Nina, Hosken, David J.

“…Sexual selection is responsible for the evolution of numerous conspicuous and extravagant displays observed in nature — from cricket choruses to peacock's…”
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