Coral recruitment describes the addition of new individuals to populations, and it is one of
the most fundamental demographic processes contributing to population size. As many coral …

Although DNA metabarcoding is an attractive approach for monitoring biodiversity, it is often
difficult to detect all the species present in a bulk sample. In particular, sequence recovery …

Nearly half of the animal phyla contain species that propagate asexually via agametic
reproduction, often forming colonies of genetically identical modules, that is, ramets, zooids …

Sponges play an important ecological function in many benthic habitats. They filter large
volumes of water, retain suspended particles with high efficiency, and process dissolved …

Larger animals studied during ontogeny, across populations, or across species, usually
have lower mass-specific metabolic rates than smaller animals (hypometric scaling). This …

Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …

Constraints on organisms possessing a unitary body plan appear almost absent from
colonial organisms. Like unitary organisms, however, coral colonies seemingly delay …

Higher diversity and dominance at lower latitudes has been suggested for colonial species.
We verified this pattern in species richness of ascidians, finding that higher colonial-to …

The allometric scaling of metabolic rate and what drives it are major questions in biology
with a long history. Since the metabolic rate at any level of biological organization is an …

The traditional focus of physiological and functional genomic research is on molecular
processes that play out within a single multicellular organism. In the colonial (eusocial) …