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- Publications
- Influence
Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life
- C. Dunn, A. Hejnol, +15 authors G. Giribet
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 10 April 2008
Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have recently been upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights from molecular data. These new… Expand
The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity
- W. Appeltans, S. Ahyong, +118 authors Mark John Costello
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 4 December 2012
BACKGROUND
The question of how many marine species exist is important because it provides a metric for how much we do and do not know about life in the oceans. We have compiled the first register of… Expand
Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions
- G. Edgecombe, G. Giribet, +6 authors M. Sørensen
- Biology
- Organisms Diversity & Evolution
- 17 March 2011
Metazoa comprises 35–40 phyla that include some 1.3 million described species. Phylogenetic analyses of metazoan interrelationships have progressed in the past two decades from those based on… Expand
The first record of cyclomorphosis in Tardigrada based on a new genus and species from Arctic meiobenthos1
- R. Kristensen
- Biology
- 27 April 2009
Summary
1. A new marine eutardigrade Halobiotus crispae gen. et sp. nov. is common on the brown algae Sphacelaria arctica on Disko Island, West Greenland.
2. The erection of a new genus for… Expand
Kinorhyncha from Disko Island, West Greenland
- R. P. Higgins, R. Kristensen
- Biology
- 1988
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE is handstamped in a limited number of initial copies and is recorded in the Institution's annual report, Smithsonian Year. SERES COVER DESIGN: The coral Montastrea cavernosa… Expand
Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages
- C. E. Laumer, N. Bekkouche, +8 authors K. Worsaae
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 3 August 2015
Despite rapid advances in the study of metazoan evolutionary history [1], phylogenomic analyses have so far neglected a number of microscopic lineages that possess a unique combination of characters… Expand
Ice formation in the freeze-tolerant eutardigrades Adorybiotus coronifer and Amphibolus nebulosus studied by differential scanning calorimetry
- P. Westh, R. Kristensen
- Biology
- Polar Biology
- 1 December 1992
SummaryThis paper describes ice formation in two freeze-tolerant eutardigrades Adorybiotus coronifer and Amphibolus nebulosus, both commonly found in Arctic areas, based on a study by differential… Expand
Submarine columns of ikaite tufa
- B. Buchardt, Paul T. Seaman, +9 authors Lone Thorbjørn
- Geology
- Nature
- 13 November 1997
In the small Ikka Fjord in southwestern Greenland, we have studied remarkable submarine tufa columns forming over alkaline springs by abiotic precipitationof the metastable, cold-water mineral ikaite… Expand
Molecular phylogeny of Tardigrada--investigation of the monophyly of Heterotardigrada.
- A. Jørgensen, R. Kristensen
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
- 1 August 2004
The Tidal Genus Echiniscoides and Its Variability, with Erection of Echiniscoididae fam.n. (Tardigrada)1
- R. Kristensen, T. Hallas
- Biology
- 1 December 1980
The family Echiniscoididae, comprising Anisonyches Pollock, 1975 and Echiniscoides is erected. Members of the latter genus were found in barnacles collected from the coasts of the USA, Greenland,… Expand