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On the edge of the ice: Changes in Bering Sea seafood harvest indicate ecological upheaval
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ON THE BERING SEA - As the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson
steamed toward St. Paul Island, crab fisherman Wayne Baker was holed
up in the tiny Alaskan harbor, waiting for a break in the weather.
It hadn't been a great season so far.
"I've never seen so many blanks," said Baker, who set pots for
four days without pulling up a single crab.
St. Paul is a speck of land in the Bering Sea, the treacherous
expanse of water that separates Siberia and Alaska near the top of
the world.
Since Russian fur-traders came seeking otter pelts in the 1700s,
this northernmost reach of the Pacific Ocean has ...
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Initial sequence and protein modeling results of a mitochondrial genome project on understudied invertebrate phyla.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin
; ...alphaproteobacterium-like ancestor. A mitochondrial genomics study was initiated using organisms from invertebrate phyla including Priapulida (Halicryptus spinulosus), Rotifera (Encentrum tectipes), Acanthocephala (Echinorynchus gadi), Gnathostomulida (Gnathostomula...
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New zoology data have been reported by researchers at Uppsala University.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...Uppsala University. The researchers concluded: "These findings may further help unravelling the phylogenetic position of the Priapulida within the Scalidophora and hence contribute to the elucidation of the nature of the ecdysozoan ancestor.." Janssen and...
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A phylogenomic profile of hemerythrins, the nonheme diiron binding respiratory proteins.(Database)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology
; ...tissue as MHr, and was originally thought to be limited to three minor protostome phyla, the Sipuncula, Brachiopoda and Priapulida, and one annelid species [4, 5, 6]. Over the last twenty years, cytoplasmic Hrs have been reported in all three annelid...
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