Recently collected material from Australia, Japan and Guam allowed us to revise Phyrella and describe Phyrella mookiei sp. nov. We redefine the genus based on combined morphological and molecular analyses. Phyrella unlike most dendrochirotids eviscerate posteriorly. The number of tentacles is variable (14-20), as is the degree of fragmentation of the calcareous ring, calling into question the s...

The case put by Alexey Smirnov in 2012 is accepted and the order name Synaptida Cuénot is adopted in place of Apodida Brandt. Two new Myriotrochidae Théel species from the continental slope of Australia are described: Prototrochus robbinsae sp. nov. and Prototrochus roniae sp. nov.  A key to the six Australasian species of Prototrochus Beljaev & Mironov and a distribution and depth map are prov...

Late in 1964, one of us (D.L.P') received from Professor V. V. Hickman in Tasmania a specimen of a new synaptid holothurian from that island. Professor Hickman had prepared permanent mounts of representative calcareous deposits of the specimen, and very kindly offered all of his ma,terial of the species to D.L.P. for inclusion ina report on the apodous holothurians of the Australian Museum whic...

Juvenile stages are often thought to be less resistant to thermal challenges than adults, yet few studies make direct comparisons using the same methods between different life history stages. We tested the resilience of juvenile stages compared to adults in 4 species of Antarctic marine invertebrate over 3 different rates of experimental warming. The species used represent 3 phyla and 4 classes...

An erratum on: Shrivastava C, Crenna E, Schudel S, Shoji K, Onwude D, Hischier R and Defraeye T (2022) To Wrap Or to Not Cucumbers? Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:750199. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.750199An omission the funding section of original article was made in error. The following sentence has been added: "Open access provided by Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories For Materials Science And Tec...

UNLABELLED A method is described for growth of a Lactobacillus plantarum starter culture in jars of commercially available pasteurized fresh-pack kosher dill cucumbers so that jars can be used to inoculate commercial scale cucumber fermentation tanks. A procedure is also described to transfer lactic acid bacteria from frozen storage in MRS broth into cucumber juice and commercial jars of kosher...