Gustav Paulay, curator of our invertebrate zoology collection, recently joined an OceanX bioblitz off the coast of Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia. Jump to the OceanX video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-x... Read (and watch) about this ambitious bioblitz: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-blog/...

Hundreds of New Species in 2 Weeks? Inside a Real-Life Ocean BioBlitz

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Is your research focused on coral reef organisms around the Arabian Peninsula? 🪸 🌊 🐠 🐚 Our research topic titled "From discovery to monitoring: Diversity, evolution, and ecology of coral reef organisms in the world’s hottest seas" is now open for submissions at Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

🪸 Our new paper is out in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution and is available open access at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond Tubipora musica: Phylogenomics unveils the overlooked diversity and endemism of the hermatypic octocoral genus Tubipora

Although scleractinians are typically considered the main reef-building corals, a few octocoral taxa also contribute to coral reef framework formation…

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We're delighted to announce that Dr. Laura Marcina @lauramacrina.bsky.social is joining our team as a Subject Editor! Read all about her expertise here: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1112

Our manuscript "The hidden diversity of Saudi Arabian Red Sea octocorals revealed through a morpho-molecular assessment across bathymetric and latitudinal gradients", based on the results of my first PhD chapter, is now available open access in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The hidden diversity of Saudi Arabian Red Sea octocorals revealed through a morpho-molecular assessment across bathymetric and latitudinal gradients - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The hidden diversity of Saudi Arabian Red Sea octocorals revealed through a morpho-molecular assessment across bathymetric and latitudinal gradients

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Scientists have completed the largest survey of soft coral diversity ever conducted. Their results show that soft corals have been radiating in a small corner of what was once a giant sea. 🪸 Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worl... Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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World’s soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve lea...

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Our article is out in Ecology and Evolution! We use SDMs to model the habitat distribution of the coral Madracis interjecta in the mesophotic/ deep Red Sea. We also found Madracis bioherms to occur in deeper and cooler waters than the individual colonies 🦑🪸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper by MISE octocoral crazy collectors and friends!! @lauramacrina.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific

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Honoured to have contributed to this amazing work led by Professor McFadden! 🪸 Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific is now out on Scientific Reports and available open access at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific

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I wrote about a delightful study about the secret dynamics of a coral, some seahorses, and oodles of tiny worms defector.com/a-small-and-...

A Small And Beautiful Seahorse Reveals An Even Smaller And Reclusive Worm | Defector

Years ago, as a student at the University of the Ryukyus in in Okinawa, Japan, Ai Takahata was researching the color patterns of a seahorse about the size of a shelled peanut. The pygmy seahorse Hippo...

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