Browse research from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences.
Submissions from 2015
Understanding the gender and ethnicity attainment gap in UK higher education, DRE Cotton, M Joyner, R George, and PA Cotton
Developmental telomere attrition predicts impulsive decision-making in adult starlings, M Bateson, BO Brilot, R Gillespie, P Monaghan, and D Nettle
A new species of Yola Gozis, 1886 from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), David T. Bilton
An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss, D Nettle, P Monaghan, R Gillespie, and et al
Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour., Mark Briffa, Lynne U. Sneddon, and Alastair J. Wilson
ASSESSMENT OF CORALLINE ALGAL SPECIES DIVERSITYAND COMPOSITION AT EUROPEAN CO2 SEEPS USING DNA BARCODING, V Pena, P Range, M Milazzo, Clerck O De, Gall L Le, and JM Hall-Spencer
Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls., S Danise and ND Higgs
Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean., Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Paolo Montagna, Stefano Aliani, Mireno Borghini, Simonepietro Canese, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Andy Foggo, Marco Milazzo, Marco Taviani, and Fanny Houlbrèque
Capelatus prykei gen. et sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) - a phylogenetically isolated diving beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa, David T. Bilton, Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint, Clive R. Turner, and Michael Balke
Challenges of achieving Good Environmental Status in the Northeast Atlantic, Karen A. Alexander, Peter Kershaw, Philip Cooper, Alison J. Gilbert, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Johanna J. Heymans, Andreas Kannen, Hans J. Los, Tim O'Higgins, Cathal O'Mahony, Paul Tett, Tineke A. Troost, and Beusekom J van
Chloroplasts play a central role in plant defence and are targeted by pathogen effectors, Torres Zabala M de, George Littlejohn, Siddharth Jayaraman, David Studholme, Trevor Bailey, Tracy Lawson, Michael Tillich, Dirk Licht, Bettina Bölter, Laura Delfino, William Truman, John Mansfield, Nicholas Smirnoff, and Murray Grant
Copper-induced intra-specific oxidative damage and antioxidant responses in strains of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus with different pollution histories., CA Sáez, F Roncarati, A Moenne, AJ Moody, and MT Brown
Does lure colour influence catch per unit effort, fish capture size and hooking injury in angled largemouth bass?, Andrew D. Moraga, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke
EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION VARY DEPENDING ON LIGHT AND NUTRIENT LEVELS, PSM Celis-Pla, JM Hall-Spencer, P Horta, M Milazzo, N Korbee, CE Cornwall, and FL Figueroa
Effects of reduced pH on shell mineral composition and integrity of three common gastropods from a natural undersea CO2 vent community off Vulcano Island, Italy, AM Duquette, JB Mcclintock, CD Amsler, A Perez-Huerta, JM Hall-Spencer, and M Milazzo
Evaluating shoreline identification using optical satellite images, G Garcia-Rubio, David Huntley, and Paul Russell
Evaluating Unsupervised Methods to Size and Classify Suspended Particles Using Digital In-Line Holography, Emlyn J. Davies, Daniel Buscombe, George W. Graham, and W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith
Evidence for distinct coastal and offshore communities of bottlenose dolphins in the north east Atlantic., Machiel G. Oudejans, Fleur Visser, Anneli Englund, Emer Rogan, and Simon N. Ingram
Exaggerated displays do not improve mounting success in male seaweed flies Fucellia tergina (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), Ruth Memmott and Mark Briffa
Expression of multiple horizontally acquired genes is a hallmark of both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes, Alastair Crisp, Chiara Boschetti, Malcolm Perry, Alan Tunnacliffe, and Gos Micklem
Herbivore diversity improves benthic community resilience to ocean acidification, Cecilia Baggini, Yannis Issaris, Maria Salomidi, and Jason Hall-Spencer
Home advantage? Decomposition across the freshwater-estuarine transition zone varies with litter origin and local salinity, Giulio Franzitta, Mick E. Hanley, Laura Airoldi, Cecilia Baggini, David T. Bilton, Simon D. Rundle, and Richard C. Thompson
Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats, Isobel Eyres, Chiara Boschetti, Alastair Crisp, Thomas P. Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alan Tunnacliffe, and Timothy G. Barraclough
How clumpy is my image?, Hugo Hutt, Richard Everson, Murray Grant, John Love, and George Littlejohn
How well do protected area networks support taxonomic and functional diversity in non-target taxa? The case of Iberian freshwaters, S. Guareschi, D. T. Bilton, J. Velasco, A Millan, and P Abellan
HOW WILL MARINE LIFE COPE WITH OCEAN ACIDIFICATION?, J Hall-Spencer
Integrating network analysis, sensor tags, and observation to understand shark ecology and behavior, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jacob W. Brownscombe, J Krause, S Krause, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Edward J. Brooks, and Steven J. Cooke
Investigating anhedonia in a non-conventional species: Do some riding horses Equus caballus display symptoms of depression?, C Fureix, C Beaulieu, S Argaud, C Rochais, and et al
In Vivo Chemical and Structural Analysis of Plant Cuticular Waxes Using Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy, George R. Littlejohn, Jessica C. Mansfield, David Parker, Rob Lind, Sarah Perfect, Mark Seymour, Nicholas Smirnoff, John Love, and Julian Moger
IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN SEAWEED TO DEALWITH OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, JM Hall-Spencer, LR Pettit, LA Newcomb, E Carrington, CW Smart, MB Hart, and M Milazzo
Long Term Aggresome Accumulation Leads to DNA Damage, p53-dependent Cell Cycle Arrest, and Steric Interference in Mitosis, Meng Lu, Chiara Boschetti, and Alan Tunnacliffe
Marine spatial planning and Good Environmental Status: a perspective on spatial and temporal dimensions, Alison J. Gilbert, Karen Alexander, Rafael Sardá, Raminta Brazinskaite, Christian Fischer, Kira Gee, Mark Jessopp, Peter Kershaw, Hans J. Los, Morla D March, Cathal O'Mahony, Mia Pihlajamäki, Siân Rees, and Riku Varjopuro
Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator–Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry, Stefano Marras, Takuji Noda, John F. Steffensen, Morten B.S. Svendsen, Jens Krause, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, James Herbert-Read, Kevin M. Boswell, and Paolo Domenici
Observations of gravel beach dynamics during high energy wave conditions using a laser scanner, L. P. Almeida, G. Masselink, P. E. Russell, and M. A. Davidson
Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory, Brian Gaylord, Kristy J. Kroeker, Jennifer M. Sunday, Kathryn M. Anderson, James P. Barry, Norah E. Brown, Sean D. Connell, Sam Dupont, Katharina E. Fabricius, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Terrie Klinger, Marco Milazzo, Philip L. Munday, Bayden D. Russell, Eric Sanford, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Vengatesen Thiyagarajan, Megan L.H. Vaughan, Steven Widdicombe, and Christopher D.G. Harley
On the verge? Preferential use of road-facing hedgerow margins by bumblebees in agro-ecosystems, Mick E. Hanley and Joshua P. Wilkins
Oxygen-limited thermal tolerance is seen in a plastron-breathing insect and can be induced in a bimodal gas exchanger., Wilco C.E.P. Verberk and David T. Bilton
Parasites and personality in periwinkles (Littorina littorea): Infection status is associated with mean-level boldness but not repeatability., Ben Seaman and Mark Briffa
PHOTOPHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF CO2 AND TEMPERATURE LEVELS ON CYSTOSEIRA TAMARISCIFOLIA, COLLECTED ON SOUTHERN SPAIN, PSM Celis-Pla, B Martinez, JM Hall-Spencer, N Korbee, and FL Figueroa
Phylogenetic analysis of rhodolith formation in the Corallinales (Rhodophyta), JJ Hernandez-Kantun, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, V Pena, Christine A. Maggs, and Fabio Rindi
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance Analysis In Cauliflower Using A Curd Micropropagation System, H. Z. Rihan, M. Al-Issawi, M. Al-Shamari, M. Elmahrouk, and M. P. Fuller
Predictive habitat suitability models to aid conservation of elasmobranch diversity in the central Mediterranean Sea, V. Lauria, M. Gristina, M. J. Attrill, F. Fiorentino, and G. Garofalo
Puffed and bothered: Personality, performance, and the effects of stress on checkered pufferfish, Naomi Pleizier, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Aaron D. Shultz, and Steven J. Cooke
Septin-Dependent Assembly of the Exocyst Is Essential for Plant Infection by Magnaporthe oryzae, Yogesh K. Gupta, Yasin F. Dagdas, Ana Lilia Martinez-Rocha, Michael J. Kershaw, George R. Littlejohn, Lauren S. Ryder, Jan Sklenar, Frank Menke, and Nicholas J. Talbot
Social networks in changing environments, A. D.M. Wilson, S Krause, I. W. Ramnarine, K. K. Borner, R. J.G. Clément, R. H.J.M. Kurvers, and J Krause
The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status?, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Martin Edwards, Pierre Helaouët, David G. Johns, Nicholas J.P. Owens, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Declan Schroeder, Jennifer Skinner, and Rowena F. Stern
THE EFFECT OF SUGAR TYPE, SOURCE AND CONCENTRATION ON CAULIFLOWER (BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS) MICROSHOOT PRODUCTION, H. Z. Rihan, M. Al-Shamari, F. Al-Swedi, S. Burchett, and M. P. Fuller
The exotic weevil Stenopelmus rufinasus Gyllenhal, 1835 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) across a "host-free" pond network, M Florencio, R Fernandez-Zamudio, DT Bilton, and C Diaz-Paniagua
The extreme 2013/2014 winter storms: hydrodynamic forcing and coastal response along the southwest coast of England, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Tim Poate, Paul Russell, Mark Davidson, and Daniel Conley
The global importance of regional studies in marine science: Trans-boundary pollutants matter, Gunnar G. Lauenstein, Kenneth M.Y. Leung, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
The socio-economic effects of a Marine Protected Area on the ecosystem service of leisure and recreation, Siân E. Rees, Stephen C. Mangi, Caroline Hattam, Sarah C. Gall, Lynda D. Rodwell, Frankie J. Peckett, and Martin J. Attrill
Transcriptional Dynamics Driving MAMP-Triggered Immunity and Pathogen Effector-Mediated Immunosuppression in Arabidopsis Leaves Following Infection with Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000, Laura A. Lewis, Krzysztof Polanski, Torres-Zabala M de, Siddharth Jayaraman, Laura Bowden, Jonathan Moore, Christopher A. Penfold, Dafyd J. Jenkins, Claire Hill, Laura Baxter, Satish Kulasekaran, William Truman, George Littlejohn, Justyna Prusinska, Andrew Mead, Jens Steinbrenner, Richard Hickman, David Rand, David L. Wild, Sascha Ott, Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Nick Smirnoff, Jim Beynon, Katherine Denby, and Murray Grant
Use of a seagrass residency index to apportion commercial fishery landing values and recreation fisheries expenditure to seagrass habitat service., Emma L. Jackson, Siân E. Rees, Catherine Wilding, and Martin J. Attrill
Utility of biological sensor tags in animal conservation, ADM Wilson, M. Wikelski, RP Wilson, and S. J. Cooke
Vertical structure of near-bed cross-shore flow velocities in the swash zone of a dissipative beach, Kris Inch, Gerd Masselink, Jack A. Puleo, Paul Russell, and Daniel C. Conley
Visions for the North Sea: The Societal Dilemma Behind Specifying Good Environmental Status, Alison J. Gilbert, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Olivia Langmead, Laurence Mee, and Jan Vermaat
Submissions from 2014
Salt and water balance in the land crabs of Christmas Island: a review, LM Turner
Functional imaging in living plants—cell biology meets physiology, George R. Littlejohn, Tobias Meckel, M Schwarzländer, and Alex Costa
The influence of water temperature and accelerometer-determined fight intensity on physiological stress and reflex impairment of angled largemouth bass, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Kelsey Marchand, Kathryn Tisshaw, Victoria Fewster, Olivia Groff, Melissa Pichette, Marian Seed, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Alexander D.M. Wilson, and Steven J. Cooke
A spatially resolved pressure-based approach to evaluate combined effects of human activities and management in marine ecosystems, F Goodsir, HJ Bloomfield, AD Judd, and et al
Modelling storm response on gravel beaches using XBeach-G, G Masselink, R McCall, T Poate, and Geer P van
Ultraviolet radiation and cyanobacteria, RP Rastogi, RP Sinha, SH Moh, TK Lee, and et al
Germination and persistence of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis in soil microcosms, AH Bishop
Horizontal dispersion in shelf seas: High resolution modelling as an aid to sparse sampling, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Mark E. Inall, and Dmitry Aleynik
Fermentation and antimicrobial characteristics of Lactobacillus plantarum and Candida tropicalis from Nigerian fermented maize (akamu), Patience C. Obinna-Echem, Victor Kuri, and Jane Beal
From medicine to butterflies and back again, C Parmesan
Thermal niche evolution and geographical range expansion in a species complex of western Mediterranean diving beetles., Amparo Hidalgo-Galiana, David Sánchez-Fernández, David T. Bilton, Alexandra Cieslak, and Ignacio Ribera
Modelling storm hydrodynamics on gravel beaches with XBeach-G, R. T. McCall, G. Masselink, T. G. Poate, J. A. Roelvink, L. P. Almeida, M. Davidson, and P. E. Russell
Integrating metabolic performance, thermal tolerance, and plasticity enables for more accurate predictions on species vulnerability to acute and chronic effects of global warming, S Magozzi and P Calosi
Limpets counteract ocean acidification induced shell corrosion by thickening of aragonitic shell layers, G. Langer, G. Nehrke, C. Baggini, R. Rodolfo-Metalpa, J. M. Hall-Spencer, and J. Bijma
Scaling up experimental ocean acidification and warming research: from individuals to the ecosystem, AM Queirós, JA Fernandes, S Faulwetter, and P Calosi
Fine-scale hydrodynamics influence the spatio-temporal distribution of harbour porpoises at a coastal hotspot, A. R. Jones, P. Hosegood, R. B. Wynn, Boer MN De, S. Butler-Cowdry, and C. B. Embling
Postgraduate Funding - supplying the future generation of researchers and technicians, MP Fuller
Role of wave forcing, storms and nao in outer bar dynamics on a high-energy, macro-tidal beach, Gerd Masselink, Martin Austin, Tim Scott, Tim Poate, and Paul Russell
Laccobius leopardus sp. nov. from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)., David T. Bilton and Elio Gentili
The effect of molybdenum on the molecularcontrol of cold tolerance in cauliflower(Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) artificialseeds, Hail Z. Rihan, Mohammed Al-Issawi, Wondwossen Abate Woldie, Michele Kiernan, and Michael P. Fuller
Influence of Different Concentrations of Salt Stress on In Vitro Multiplication of Some Fig (Ficus carcia L.) Cultivars, EMR Metwali, IAS Hemaid, HS Al-Zahrani, SM Howlader, and MP Fuller
The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world, Juliet Brodie, Christopher J. Williamson, Dan A. Smale, Nicholas A. Kamenos, Nova Mieszkowska, Rui Santos, Michael Cunliffe, Michael Steinke, Christopher Yesson, Kathryn M. Anderson, Valentina Asnaghi, Colin Brownlee, Heidi L. Burdett, Michael T. Burrows, Sinead Collins, Penelope J.C. Donohue, Ben Harvey, Andrew Foggo, Fanny Noisette, Joana Nunes, Federica Ragazzola, John A. Raven, Daniela N. Schmidt, David Suggett, Mirta Teichberg, and Jason M. Hall-Spencer
How sailfish use their bills to capture schooling prey, P. Domenici, A. D.M. Wilson, R. H.J.M. Kurvers, S. Marras, J. E. Herbert-Read, J. F. Steffensen, S Krause, P. E. Viblanc, P. Couillaud, and J Krause
Controls on macrotidal rip current circulation and hazard, Tim Scott, Gerd Masselink, Martin J. Austin, and Paul Russell
Identification of Genes Required for Soil Survival in Burkholderia thailandensis by Transposon-Directed Insertion Site Sequencing, AH Bishop and PA Rachwal
Response of wave-dominated and mixed-energy barriers to storms, Gerd Masselink and Heteren S van
A Simple and Effective Method for High Quality Co-Extraction of Genomic DNA and Total RNA from Low Biomass Ectocarpus siliculosus, the Model Brown Alga, M Greco, CA Sáez, MT Brown, and MB Bitonti
The Bactericidal Effect of Dendritic Copper Microparticles, Contained in an Alginate Matrix, on Escherichia coli, SF Thomas, P Rooks, F Rudin, S Atkinson, and et al
Tidal energy conversion in a global hot spot: On the 3-D dynamics of baroclinic tides at the Celtic Sea shelf break, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Nataliya Stashchuk, Mark E. Inall, and Joanne E. Hopkins
Stress exposure in early post-natal life reduces telomere length: an experimental demonstration in a long-lived seabird, Katherine A. Herborn, Britt J. Heidinger, Winnie Boner, Jose C. Noguera, Aileen Adam, Francis Daunt, and Pat Monaghan
Uptake of different crystal structures of TiO₂ nanoparticles by Caco-2 intestinal cells., C Gitrowski, AR Al-Jubory, and RD Handy
Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins, Christopher K. Pham, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Claudia H.S. Alt, Teresa Amaro, Melanie Bergmann, Miquel Canals, Joan B. Company, Jaime Davies, Gerard Duineveld, François Galgani, Kerry L. Howell, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Eduardo Isidro, Daniel O.B. Jones, Galderic Lastras, Telmo Morato, José Nuno Gomes-Pereira, Autun Purser, Heather Stewart, Inês Tojeira, Xavier Tubau, Rooij D Van, and Paul A. Tyler
An update: improvements in imaging perfluorocarbon-mounted plant leaves with implications for studies of plant pathology, physiology, development and cell biology, George R. Littlejohn, Jessica C. Mansfield, Jacqueline T. Christmas, Eleanor Witterick, Mark D. Fricker, Murray R. Grant, Nicholas Smirnoff, Richard M. Everson, Julian Moger, and John Love
Impaired behavioural response to alarm substance in rainbow trout exposed to copper nanoparticles., T Sovová, D Boyle, KA Sloman, Pérez C Vanegas, and RD Handy
Detailed investigation of overwash on a gravel barrier, Ana Matias, Chris E. Blenkinsopp, and Gerd Masselink
Identification of Genes Required by Bacillus thuringiensis for Survival in Soil by Transposon-Directed Insertion Site Sequencing, AH Bishop, PA Rachwal, and A Vaid
Morphodynamic variability of high-energy macrotidal beaches, Cornwall, UK, Tim Poate, Gerhard Masselink, Paul Russell, and Martin Austin
Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment., Marco Milazzo, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Vera Bin San Chan, Maoz Fine, Cinzia Alessi, Vengatesen Thiyagarajan, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, and Renato Chemello
Optically significant particle sizes in seawater, Emlyn J. Davies, David McKee, David Bowers, George W. Graham, and W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith
A Novel Evolutionary Strategy Revealed in the Phaeoviruses, K Stevens, K Weynberg, C Bellas, S Brown, and et al
A generalized equilibriummodel for predicting daily to interannual shoreline response, Kristen D. Splinter, Ian L. Turner, Mark A. Davidson, Patrick Barnard, Bruno Castelle, and Joan Oltman-Shay
A note on the Krone deposition equation and significance of floc aggregation, AJ Mehta, AJ Manning, and YP Khare
