Unlike the terrestrial biota , marine species with planktonic larvae can maintain large population sizes , together with the weak geographic barriers in the vastness of seas , they often show high-level gene flow .However , the highly-connected marine habitats have nurtured ex...
05 10, 2021
How to address global warming and climate change by reducing emissions and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is a focus of international politics and scientific research. Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to "zero" as soon as possible and achieving "carbon neut...
05 03, 2021
Marine sponges, regarded as valuable resources of bioactive natural products, are the most ancient polycellular animals that adorn tropical reefs and the ocean bottom. However, many lines of evidence support that marine sponge-associated microorganisms are the actual producer...
04 21, 2021
Lateral gene transfer ( LGT ) plays a prominent role in the genome evolution and environmental adaptation of prokaryotes .Xenogeneic silencing proteins can selectively silence the newly acquired DNA molecules to protect cells from the detrimental effects of LGT genes .
03 16, 2021
Diversification and phylogeography of marine organisms remain poorly understood .The radiation of seahorses ( Family Syngnathidae ) is a particularly iconic and suitable model system to investigate the effects that tectonic activity and ocean current dynamics can have on the d...
03 16, 2021
Global coral reefs have entered a distinctive human-dominated era , the Anthropocene , characterized by more frequent severe global coral bleaching events and regional-scale coral habitat degradation .Coastal areas around the world are usually densely populated regions that ar...
03 16, 2021
