A5075039241- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Marine and environmental studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
- Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
University of Plymouth
2022-2024
Plymouth Marjon University
2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2020-2022
University of Portsmouth
2012-2022
University of Massachusetts Boston
2022
Northeastern University
2016-2020
New England Biolabs (United States)
2018
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2012
The use of artificial intelligence in academia is a hot topic the education field. ChatGPT an AI tool that offers range benefits, including increased student engagement, collaboration, and accessibility. However, also raises concerns regarding academic honesty plagiarism. This paper examines opportunities challenges using higher education, discusses potential risks rewards these tools. considers difficulties detecting preventing dishonesty, suggests strategies universities can adopt to...
The use of artificial intelligence in academia is a hot topic the education field. chatAPIs and GPT-3 higher has potential to offer range benefits, including increased student engagement, collaboration, accessibility. However, these tools also raise number challenges concerns, particularly relation academic honesty plagiarism. This paper examines opportunities using education, with focus on risks rewards ways which universities can address they pose. discusses main features capabilities...
Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies challenging and hampers insights into the structure function microbial communities multiple habitats on a planetary scale. Here we present multi-omics analysis diverse set 880 community samples collected for Earth Microbiome Project. We include amplicon (16S, 18S, ITS) shotgun metagenomic sequence data, untargeted metabolomics data (liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry gas chromatography...
Significance Certain marine invertebrates harbor chemosynthetic bacterial symbionts, giving them the remarkable ability to consume inorganic chemicals such as hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) rather than organic matter food. These animals are found near geochemical (e.g., hydrothermal vents) or biological decaying wood large animal carcasses) sources of H S on seafloor. Although many symbioses have been discovered, little is known about how where they originated. Here, we demonstrate a new symbiosis...
Lignocellulose forms the structural framework of woody plant biomass and represents most abundant carbon source in biosphere. Turnover is a critical component global cycle, enzymes involved are increasing industrial importance as industry moves away from fossil fuels to renewable resources. Shipworms marine bivalve molluscs that digest wood play key role cycling by processing oceans. Previous studies suggest digestion shipworms dominated produced endosymbiotic bacteria found animal's gills,...
Marine wood-boring teredinids, some of the most destructive wood borers in sea, are a particularly difficult group to identify from morphological features. While bivalve species shell features used as diagnostic characters, teredinids morphology shows high intraspecific variation and thus identification is based almost entirely on pallets. In present study we aimed at improving ‘taxonomic resolution’ by combining evidence with mitochondrial nuclear DNA sequences, respectively Cytochromec...
The sea-grass borer Zachsia zenkewitschi belongs to a group of economically and ecologically important bivalves, commonly referred as shipworms. sole recognized representative the genus Zachsia, this species displays an unusual life history reproductive strategy that is now understood include: environmental sex determination free swimming larvae, extreme sexual size dimorphism between males females, internal fertilization, maintenance often large harems male dwarfs within specialized cavity...
Shipworms are a group of wood-boring and wood-feeding bivalves extraordinary economic, ecological historical importance. Known in the literature since fourth century BC, shipworms both destructive pests critical providers ecosystem services. All previously described obligate wood-borers, completing all or part their life cycle wood most thought to use as primary source nutrition. Here, we report describe new anatomically morphologically divergent species shipworm that bores carbonate...
Here, we describe three endosymbiotic bacterial strains isolated from the gills of shipworm, Bankia setacea (Teredinidae: Bivalvia). These strains, designated as Bs08T, Bs12T and Bsc2T, are Gram-stain-negative, microaerobic, gammaproteobacteria that grow on cellulose a variety substrates derived lignocellulose. Phenotypic characterization, phylogeny based 16S rRNA gene whole genome sequence data, amino acid identity percentage conserved proteins analyses, show these novel may be assigned to...
ABSTRACT ‘Blue foods’ from aquaculture provide an invaluable source of nutrition but can be resource‐intensive and relatively unsustainable to produce. Naked clam aquaculture, the farming wood‐boring bivalves family Teredinidae, offers a means rapidly sustainably convert wood into low‐environmental impact nutrient‐dense protein. is unique due ease with which culture performed minimal infrastructure, making it ideal candidate alleviate protein scarcity even on small‐scale farms. Here we...
Shipworms play critical roles in recycling wood the sea. Symbiotic bacteria supply enzymes that organisms need for nutrition and degradation. Some of these have been grown pure culture capacity to make many secondary metabolites. However, little is known about whether such metabolite pathways are represented symbiont communities within their hosts. In addition, has reported patterns host-symbiont co-occurrence. Here, we collected shipworms from United States, Philippines, Brazil cultivated...
A cellulolytic, aerobic, gammaproteobacterium, designated strain Bs02 T , was isolated from the gills of a marine wood-boring mollusc, Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae). The cells are Gram-stain-negative, slightly curved motile rods (2–5×0.4–0.6 µm) that bear single polar flagellum and capable heterotrophic growth in simple mineral medium supplemented with cellulose as sole source carbon energy. Cellulose, carboxymethylcellulose, xylan, cellobiose variety sugars also support growth....
Monitoring the diversity and distribution of species in an ecosystem is essential to assess success restoration strategies. Implementing biomonitoring methods, which provide a comprehensive assessment mitigate biases data collection, holds significant importance biodiversity research. Additionally, ensuring that these methods are cost-efficient require minimal effort crucial for effective environmental monitoring. In this study we compare efficiency detection, cost two non-destructive...
Shipworms, historically known for their destruction of wooden ships and coastal structures, play a key role in carbon nutrient cycling aquatic ecosystems. Despite extensive research, the exact mechanisms underlying ability to digest wood have remained elusive, particularly regarding degradation lignin, major component that resists breakdown. Here we employ combination microbial culture, metagenomics, FISH-probe microscopy analyses explore previously overlooked aspects digestive system....
A chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing, diazotrophic, facultatively heterotrophic, endosymbiotic bacterium, designated as strain 2141T, was isolated from the gills of giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamius (Teredinidae: Bivalvia). Based on its 16S rRNA sequence, endosymbiont falls within a clade that includes as-yet-uncultivated thioautotrophic symbionts marine ciliate and hydrothermal vent gastropods, uncultivated sediment bacteria, free-living sulfur-oxidizing bacterium ODIII6, all which...
Shipworms are marine xylophagus bivalve molluscs, which can live on a diet solely of wood due to their ability produce plant cell wall-degrading enzymes. Bacterial carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), synthesised by endosymbionts living in specialised shipworm cells called bacteriocytes and located the animal's gills, play an important role digestion shipworms. However, main site lignocellulose within these wood-boring contains both endogenous lignocellulolytic prokaryotic enzymes, is...
Kuphus polythalamius (Teredinidae) is one of the world's largest, most rarely observed, and least understood bivalves. also among few shallow-water marine species only teredinid determined to harbor sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic (thioautotrophic) symbionts. Until recent discovery living specimens in Philippines, this was known from calcareous hard parts, fossils, preserved soft tissues a single large specimen. As result, anatomy, biology, life history, geographic range K. remain obscure....
The Tohoku tsunami of March 2011 ejected a vast amount debris into the Pacific Ocean.Wood boring shipworms (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) were either already present in, or settled on, wooden fraction this debris, offering unique opportunity to study shipworm diversity in rafted wood known origin and time ocean entry.Lumber other began appearing on Central (Hawaiian Islands) Eastern beaches 2013.Eighty pieces Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris (JTMD) consisting construction beams, trees, milled logs,...
The shipworm Lyrodus pedicellatus is a wood-boring bivalve with an unusual vermiform body. Although its larvae are brooded, they retain the general appearance of typical veliger-type larva. Here, we describe myogenesis L. revealed by filamentous actin labelling and discuss data in comparative framework order to test for homologous structures that might be part (larval) muscular ground pattern. Five major muscle systems were identified: velum retractor, foot larval distinct mantle musculature...
Shipworms are ecologically and economically important mollusks that feed on woody plant material (lignocellulosic biomass) in marine environments. Digestion occurs a specialized cecum, reported to be virtually sterile lacking resident gut microbiota. Wood-degrading CAZymes produced both endogenously by gill endosymbiotic bacteria, with extracellular enzymes from the latter being transported gut. Previous research has predominantly focused how these animals process cellulose component of...
There has been limited research on the breakdown, recycling, and flux of carbon from large woody detritus (LWD) in mangrove forests. The breakdown LWD is caused by guilds terrestrial marine biodegrading organisms that degrade wood at a range rates efficiencies. Spatial variations environmental factors within mangroves affect distribution community organisms, which, turn, impacts flow sequestration. We reveal role influence forest South East Sulawesi supports diversity species typical...
Abstract The global population urgently requires alternative food sources that provide the micronutrient-rich profile of meat and fish but with lower environmental cost. We present a solution in form ‘Naked Clams’ (teredinids/shipworms) - seldom researched group bivalves, feature tiny shells live feed on wood, turning it into protein essential nutrients. report first pilot system for Naked Clam aquaculture, nutritional feeding efficacy assessment, demonstrate value offered by...