From the microscopic to the complex, invertebrates hold remarkable biological strategies for survival, adaptation, and regeneration. Recent research is uncovering how their developmental mechanisms, ...

The study outlines a new scenario for understanding how genome regulation and chromatin organization influence the evolution of animal body plans. The conservation of genome regulatory elements over ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors.

Echinoderms are a phylum of exclusively marine deuterostome invertebrates characterized by pentaradial symmetry in adults, a calcareous endoskeleton composed of ossicles, and a unique water vascular ...

Invertebrates, which constitute over 95% of all animal species, are the unheralded engine underpinning Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Their astonishing diversity – ranging from ...

Recent discoveries of long-gone marine invertebrates call into question the occurrence of a catastrophic global extinction hundreds of millions of years ago. The loss of diversity wasn’t as widespread ...

Sea stars and their relatives eat, breathe and scuttle around the seafloor with tiny tube feet. Now researchers have gotten their first-ever look at similar tentacle-like structures in an extinct ...

The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I ...

Specimens contained in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection date back to 1902, when Dr. William E. Ritter of the University of California Berkeley and summer ...

THIS book is intended as a guide to the study of each of the larger groups of invertebrates. About forty animals are considered in the space of 196 pages, consequently the descriptions of many of them ...

John and Vicki Pearse with former students at the 2017 NAEC meeting where they were honored. From left to right: Damhnait McHugh, James McClintock, Vicki Pearse, John Pearse, Benjamin Miner, Isidro ...