Identifying genetic population connectivity and discrete population boundaries are important objectives for management of declining Caribbean reef-building corals and coral reefs. A double digest restriction associated DNA ...

The bearded fireworm Hermodice carunculata is an important predator invertebrate in tropical and subtropical Atlantic, including the Mediterranean. There is limited data on the genetic population structure of H. carunculata ...

Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766) seems to be the only Caribbean species in the genus Briareum, with four additional species found in the Indo-pacific region. Since the 1970’s, interest from pharmaceutical companies to ...

Worldwide shark populations have been drastically decreasing due to illegal fishing. In healthy marine ecosystems, sharks are considered apex predators and their removal (e.g., overfishing) has caused a negative impact on ...

Octopus vulgaris is an important species in cephalopod fisheries and also in understanding population regulation in marine invertebrates. Despite its importance, little is known about its distribution and genetic connectivity ...

Natural populations of many marine invertebrates are under pressure by fisheries due to the increasing demand and unit prices leading to overexploitation. I examined the genetic variation of two marine invertebrates: the ...

Echinoderms display a wide array of life histories, which can have a profound effect in the dispersal potential and population structure of species. The brittle stars Ophiocoma echinata and Amphipholis squamata are ...

Coral reef invertebrates are not, nor have ever been, completely autonomous entities; rather they exist as a network of inter-dependent species, living and evolving as a “holobiont”. A major, yet relatively understudied, ...

Millepora is a relative rich-species genus of hydrocorals, with 18 species distributed around the globe and no shared species between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. It is considered one of the important reef building ...

There are no studies on the taxonomy and ecology of the polychaetes from the Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCE) and this work represents the first effort to identify and catalog the polychaetes of these ecosystems ...