Rhythms and clocks in marine organisms

NS Häfker, G Andreatta, A Manzotti… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The regular movements of waves and tides are obvious representations of the oceans'
rhythmicity. But the rhythms of marine life span across ecological niches and timescales …

[HTML][HTML] In the dark: a review of ecosystem processes during the Arctic polar night

J Berge, PE Renaud, G Darnis, F Cottier, K Last… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Several recent lines of evidence indicate that the polar night is key to understanding Arctic
marine ecosystems. First, the polar night is not a period void of biological activity even …

[HTML][HTML] Moonlight drives ocean-scale mass vertical migration of zooplankton during the Arctic winter

KS Last, L Hobbs, J Berge, AS Brierley, F Cottier - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
In extreme high-latitude marine environments that are without solar illumination in winter,
light-mediated patterns of biological migration have historically been considered non …

The overwintering of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, from an ecophysiological perspective

B Meyer - Polar Biology, 2012 - Springer
A major aim of this review is to determine which physiological functions are adopted by
adults and larvae to survive the winter season with low food supply and their relative …

Feeding and overwintering of Antarctic krill across its major habitats: The role of sea ice cover, water depth, and phytoplankton abundance

K Schmidt, A Atkinson, DW Pond… - Limnology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) were sampled in contrasting habitats: a seasonally ice‐
covered deep ocean (Lazarev Sea), ice‐free shelves at their northern range (South Georgia) …

The cryptochrome/photolyase family in aquatic organisms

P Oliveri, AE Fortunato, L Petrone, T Ishikawa-Fujiwara… - Marine Genomics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cryptochrome/Photolyase Family (CPF) represents an ancient group of widely
distributed UV-A/blue-light sensitive proteins sharing common structures and chromophores …

Circadian clock involvement in zooplankton diel vertical migration

NS Häfker, B Meyer, KS Last, DW Pond, L Hüppe… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Biological clocks are a ubiquitous ancient and adaptive mechanism enabling organisms to
anticipate environmental cycles and to regulate behavioral and physiological processes …

[PDF][PDF] CrusTome: a transcriptome database resource for large-scale analyses across Crustacea

JL Pérez-Moreno, MT Kozma, DM DeLeo… - G3: Genes …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomes from nontraditional model organisms often harbor a wealth of unexplored
data. Examining these data sets can lead to clarity and novel insights in traditional systems …

Migratory zooplankton excreta and its influence on prokaryotic communities

AE Maas, S Liu, LM Bolaños, B Widner… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Particulate organic matter (POM)(fecal pellets) from zooplankton has been demonstrated to
be an important nutrient source for the pelagic prokaryotic community. Significantly less is …

Swarming and behaviour in Antarctic krill

GA Tarling, S Fielding - Biology and ecology of Antarctic krill, 2016 - Springer
The behavioural ecology of Antarctic krill is dominated by their tendency to swarm. They
form amongst the largest monospecific aggregations of biomass in the animal kingdom, with …