The bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii displays many interesting biological characteristics. These include its reproductive timing, which is synchronized to the moon phase, its regenerative capacity that is hormonally controlled, and a slow rate of evolution, which permits analyses of ancestral genes and cell types. As a marine annelid, Platynereis is also representative of the marine ecosystem...

In many natural, technological, social and economic applications, one is commonly faced with the task of estimating statistical properties from empirical data (experimental observations), such as mean-first-passage times of a temporal continuous process. Typically, however, an accurate and reliable estimation of such properties directly from the data alone is not possible as the time series is ...

1 Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7144, Station Biologique, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Roscoff, France, 3 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, 4 Hjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, ...

Contact information for other authors: Shahaama Abdul Sattar. University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway. Present address: Marine Research Centre, Ministry of Fisheries, Agriculture and Marine Resources, Malé, Republic of Maldives. [email protected] Øyvind Fiksen. University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway. oyvind.fik...

e. le guilloux, j.m. hall-spencer, m.k. so¤ffker and k. olu Ifremer, Département Etude des Ecosystèmes Profonds, Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Centre de Brest, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France, Marine Institute, Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, Ecotoxicology and Aquatic Biology Research Group, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road,...

a National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, California 92037-1022, USA b Ocean Sunfish Tagging and Research Program, 25517 Hacienda Place Suite C, Carmel California, 93923, USA c Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA d Monterey Bay Aquarium, 866 Cannery Row, M...

1 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 2 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK 3 Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA 4 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth, UK 5 LSCE ⁄ IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ...

Conservation research aims at understanding whether present protection schemes are adequate for the maintenance of ecosystems structure and function across time. We evaluated long-term variation in rocky reef communities by comparing sites surveyed in 1993 and again in 2008. This research took place in Tigullio Gulf, an emblematic case study where various conservation measures, including a mari...

Bacteriophage (phage) life history traits include lag time, and burst size. To characterize the distributions of these traits, individual φX174 virions were isolated in each sample and combined with E. coli at the start time. The number of phage present in each sample was assayed at various time-points—samples in which many phage were observed were denoted bursts. No bursts were observed before...