Evidence for Host Selectivity and Specialization by Epizoic Chelonibia Barnacles Between Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles

Autor: Liberty L. Boyd, John D. Zardus, Courtney M. Knauer, Lawrence D. Wood

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 9 (2021)

Epibionts are organisms that utilize the exterior of other organisms as a living substratum. Many affiliate opportunistically with hosts of different species, but others specialize on particular hosts as obligate associates. We investigated a case of

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Spatial distribution of epibionts on olive ridley sea turtles at Playa Ostional, Costa Rica.

Autor: Nathan J Robinson, Emily M Lazo-Wasem, Brett O Butler, Eric A Lazo-Wasem, John D Zardus, Theodora Pinou

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 9, p e0218838 (2019)

There is a wealth of published information on the epibiont communities of sea turtles, yet many of these studies have exclusively sampled epibionts found only on the carapace. Considering that epibionts may be found on almost all body-surfaces and th

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How whale and dolphin barnacles attach to their hosts and the paradox of remarkably versatile attachment structures in cypris larvae

Autor: John D. Zardus, Jørgen E. Olesen, Niklas Dreyer, Jens T. Høeg, Meng-Chen Yu, Benny K. K. Chan

Publikováno v: Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 20:233-249

How larvae of whale and dolphin epibionts settle on their fast-swimming and migrating hosts is a puzzling question in zoology. We successfully reared the larvae of the whale and dolphin barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis to the cyprid stage. We studie

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-020-00434-3

Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle

Autor: Jens T. Høeg, Benny K. K. Chan, Yue Him Wong, Sing-Pei Yu, John D. Zardus, Jr-Chi Lin, Nathan J. Robinson, Niklas Dreyer, I-Jiung Cheng

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Chan, B K K, Wong, Y H, Robinson, N J, Lin, J-C, Yu, S-P, Dreyer, N, Cheng, I-J, Høeg, J T & Zardus, J D 2021, ' Five hundred million years to mobility : directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle ', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1960, 20211620 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620

Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became ‘sessile’ over 500 Ma; however, we confirm that the epizoic sea turtle barnacle,

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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620

Parallel Patterns of Host-Specific Morphology and Genetic Admixture in Sister Lineages of a Commensal Barnacle

Autor: John D. Zardus, Christine Ewers-Saucedo, John P. Wares, Benny K. K. Chan

Publikováno v: The Biological Bulletin. 232:171-185

Symbiotic relationships are often species specific, allowing symbionts to adapt to their host environments. Host generalists, on the other hand, have to cope with diverse environments. One coping strategy is phenotypic plasticity, defined by the pres

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https://doi.org/10.1086/693356