Development of some animals is influenced by and, in some cases, dependent on the
associated microbiota. The timing of when associated bacterial communities are established …

Echinoderm larvae have served as a fundamental system for understanding development
and life history evolution over much of the last century. In the last few decades, our …

Relationships between animals and their associated microbiota are dependent on both the
evolutionary history of the host and on the environment. The majority of studies tend to focus …

Most marine invertebrates have dispersive larvae and relatively immobile adults. These
developmental stages are linked by a settlement event, which is often mediated by specific …

Mothers impact the survival and performance of their offspring through the resources they
provision, and the degree of maternal investment in an individual offspring can be broadly …

Planktotrophic sea star larvae of several species are abundant in oligotrophic waters of the
Gulf Stream, western Sargasso Sea, and Caribbean Sea. One abundant larval morphotype …

Determining the factors underlying the assembly, structure, and diversity of symbiont
communities remains a focal point of animal-microbiome research. Much of these efforts …

In the present work, culture-based and culture-independent investigations were performed
to determine the microbiota structure of the coelomic fluid of Mediterranean sea urchin …

Increasing evidence indicates that microbes colonized in early life stages have a long-term
effect on animal wellbeing in later life stages. Related research is still limited in aquatic …

Since its beginnings over 1 billion years ago, the process of metazoan evolution has taken
place largely within the sea, the environment in which all known animal phyla first appeared …