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"Syracuse University researchers explore how excess freshwater from climate change-associated events such as increased torrential rainstorms are impacting sea urchin survival"


eurekalert.org/news-releases/9

#climatechange #seaurchin

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Since early 2022, sea urchins have been mysteriously dying off across the Caribbean. Now scientists say they have identified the main culprit: a type of relatively large, single-celled marine microorganism called a scuticociliate.

Learn more: sciencenews.org/article/urchin

#Science #biology #marinebiology #seaurchin #caribbean

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi · @marcrr
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Interesting for relation between and :
"These results demonstrate that natural selection can rapidly reshape developmental gene expression on a broad scale when selective regimes abruptly change. More broadly, even highly conserved dGRNs and patterning mechanisms in the early embryo remain evolvable under appropriate ecological circumstances."
nature.com/articles/s41559-022

#evodevo #naturalselection #seaurchin

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