Researchers have highlighted patterns of gene activation during Malabar grouper larval development, revealing an unusual early peak of activation of thyroid and corticoid genes during the early larval ...

Aim It has been proposed that the mode of larval development (MLD) could explain the exceptions to the latitudinal gradient of species richness exhibited by several groups of marine organisms. We ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 52, No. 1 (July 2012), pp. 138-150 (13 pages) Credible cases of poecilogony, the production of two distinct larval morphs within a species, are extremely rare ...

Energy deficiencies and inflammation may cause warming-related mortality in Pacific cod larvae.     A new study used gene ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these animals develops along a central axis from their ‘head’ to ‘tail’. The study, ...