Researching echinoderms and other marine invertebrates
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23 Jan 2025
In early 2024, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) faced unprecedented heat stress, with severe coral bleaching affecting vast areas of the marine park
The Reefs of One Tree Island, in the southern GBR, are some of the highest protected on the entire GBR.
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1 Dec 2023
Jeremy Day's sea urchin predator research - well worth a listen!!
open.spotify.com/episode/542…
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25 Oct 2023
New paper on S. monotuberculatus behaviour! The work was lead by our collaborators Ben Gray and Dr Steve Purcell from Southern Cross University and involved working throughout the night on the GBR. Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-0…
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19 Oct 2023
New work published in Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Looking at the thermal tolerance of juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars in context with heatwaves that bleach and kill corals!
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8 May 2021
Many happy returns to broadcaster, naturalist, and one of the world's foremost advocates for nature, Sir David Attenborough FRS on his 95th birthday. bit.ly/35gDzwU
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14 Apr 2021
New paper out with @tylercarrier_ on the differing microbiome of these pretty larvae from two sister sea urchins
pnas.org/content/118/16/e202…
@ProfMariaByrne @Britt_3Phage @Symbionticism
@adam_reitzel Hannah Devens and Greg Wray @PNASNews
14 Apr 2021
The gut microbiome is considered to be important to many biological functions in animals, but what happens to the microbiome when the gut is lost or becomes non-functional?
We explore this using the transition from feeding (L) to nonfeeding (R) in the sea urchin Heliocidaris.
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Small crown-of thorns-starfish juveniles can be injured and killed by coral stinging cells. This is the one opportunity for corals to fight back against these coral eating starfish, although the tough juveniles can regrow their lost arms.
Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/meps_665_115
ALT On the photo: the juvenile has short arms that are regenerating after being stung by coral & pink juvenile is curling its arms backwards in reacting to being stung by coral.
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3 May 2021
A great new paper by @JayMinuti on the impact of marine heatwaves on an ecologically important sea urchin - congrats!
30 Apr 2021
Happy this is out! From my PhD research at @SydneyMarine w/ @ProfMariaByrne @MarineFutureLab @BaydenRussell @HemrajAshley
"Capacity of an ecologically key urchin to recover from extreme events: Physiological impacts of heatwaves and the road to recovery"
doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.…
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14 Apr 2021
Our new paper on the differing microbial communities of the larvae of two sister sea urchin species is out today!
14 Apr 2021
New paper entitled “Microbiome reduction and endosymbiont gain from a switch in sea urchin life-history” is out in @PNASNews!
Here is a thread of the take-aways…
pnas.org/content/118/16/e202…
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