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Baruch Rinkevich
Life Sciences
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Open AccessMonitoring of species’ genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts
Genetic monitoring of populations currently attracts interest in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity but needs long-term planning and investments. However, genetic diversity has been largely ...
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Open AccessShifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets
To enhance the practice of farmed-coral transplantation, we conducted a trial of an approach called “Reef Carpets” (RC), which draws inspiration from the commercial turf-grass sod in land-based lawn gardening. Th...
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Open AccessFrontloading of stress response genes enhances robustness to environmental change in chimeric corals
Chimeras are genetically mixed entities resulting from the fusion of two or more conspecifics. This phenomenon is widely distributed in nature and documented in a variety of animal and plant phyla. In corals, ...
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Corrections to: Apparent recruitment failure for the vast majority of coral species at Eilat, Red Sea
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02121-x
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Long-term changes in population genetic features of a rapidly expanding marine invader: implication for invasion success
Large blooms of Rhopilema nomadica, a highly venomous rhizostamatid scyphozoan species introduced to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, have become ubiquitous in the summer and winter months along the Isra...
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Apparent recruitment failure for the vast majority of coral species at Eilat, Red Sea
The status of coral reefs is often portrayed by parameters (e.g., coverage, bleaching, diseases, nutrients and rugosity) assigned to adult populations. Yet, coral recruitment is essential for sustaining coral ...
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Cell Communication-mediated Nonself-Recognition and -Intolerance in Representative Species of the Animal Kingdom
Why has histo-incompatibility arisen in evolution and can cause self-intolerance? Compatible/incompatible reactions following natural contacts between genetically-different (allogeneic) colonies of marine orga...
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Develo** novel microsatellite markers by NGS technology for Rhopilema nomadica, an invasive jellyfish
Twelve microsatellite loci, obtained by whole genome sequencing approach, were developed and validated for the rhizostomatid jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica, the most pernicious invasive species in the Mediterranean...
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The Apex Set-Up for the Major Transitions in Individuality
Morphological and functional hierarchies occurring in contemporary biological entities are amalgamated via a small number of progressive key-steps termed as Major Transition in Evolution (MTE) that encompass s...
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Population genetic parameters of the emerging corallivorous snail Drupella cornus in the northern Gulf of Eilat and Tanzanian coastlines based on mitochondrial COI gene sequences
The genetic diversity and population genetic structures of Drupella cornus populations from six localities in the northern Gulf of Eilat (GOE) and five localities in Tanzania (269 individuals) were investigated u...
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Foul play? On the rapid spread of the brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) in the Mediterranean, with new records from the Gulf of Lion and the southern Levant
Specimens of the penaeid shrimp Penaeus aztecus, a West Atlantic species, were collected off Le Grau du Roi, Gulf of Lion, France, and off the Israeli coast, Levant Basin, Mediterranean Sea. This alien species ha...
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Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), yet another erythraean jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel
An unfamiliar scyphozoan jellyfish species has been observed along the Mediterranean coast of Israel since 2003. Morphological characters such as the densely anastomosed radial canals and the stalked cupped ap...
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Restoration of the Animal Forests: Harnessing Silviculture Biodiversity Concepts for Coral Transplantation
Coral reefs and rain forests are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on earth, sharing numerous ecological and functional properties. Decades of anthropogenic activities and the overexploitation o...
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Restoration of the Animal Forests: Harnessing Silviculture Biodiversity Concepts for Coral Transplantation
Coral reefs and rain forests are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on earth, sharing numerous ecological and functional properties. Decades of anthropogenic activities and the overexploitation o...
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Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides leachii (Chordata, Ascidiacea) have not been recorded in the Red Sea
Two botryllid species, Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides leachii are listed in a recent literature review on the ascidian species inventory from the Red Sea (Shenkar, Mar Biodiv 42:459–469, 2012). However, a ...
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Long-term population genetic structure of an invasive urochordate: the ascidian Botryllus schlosseri
The accelerated pace of marine biological invasions raises questions pertaining to genetic traits and dynamics underlying the successful establishment of invasive species. Current research stresses the importa...
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Maternal-larval population genetic traits in Stylophora pistillata, a hermaphroditic brooding coral species
Aspects of maternal-planula larval genetics in the monoecious scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata (Red Sea, Eilat) were studied by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) methodology in two successive...
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Cell Cultures from Marine Invertebrates: New Insights for Capturing Endless Stemness
Despite several decades of extensive research efforts, there is yet no single permanent cell line available from marine invertebrates as these cells stop dividing in vitro within 24–72 h after their isolation,...
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De novo emerged stemness signatures in epithelial monolayers developed from extirpated palleal buds
In botryllid ascidians, astogeny is executed through blastogenesis, a weekly, highly synchronized phenomenon of growth and death cycles, each constitutes four major developmental stages (A–D), operating simult...
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Further portrayal of epithelial monolayers emergent de novo from extirpated ascidians palleal buds
Astogeny in botryllid ascidians is executed by highly synchronized, repeated development and death cycles operating simultaneously on three coexisting asexually derived generations: zooids, primary buds, and s...
