new paper!

Hi all,

Looks like our second paper on COTS was accepted.

James Davis Reimer, Masami Obuchi. Acanthaster planci preying on soft corals in southern Japan. Galaxea JCRS (in press).

A good way to end the school year.

And another...

Kristine N. White, James Davis Reimer. Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part I: ascidian-dwellers. ZooKeys (accepted).

Need to start writing again!

one more paper

Just accepted:

James Davis Reimer, Masaru Mizuyama, Megumi Nakano, Takuma Fujii, Euichi Hirose. Current status of the distribution of the coral-encrusting cyanobacteriosponge Terpios hoshinota in southern Japan. Galaxea (accepted).

cheers,

JDR

another paper!

Just accepted today:

Satoe Aratake, Tomohiko Tomura, Seikoh Saitoh, Ryouma Yokokura, Yuichi Kawanishi, Ryuichi Shinjo, James Davis Reimer, Junichi Tanaka, Hideaki Maekawa. Soft Coral Sarcophyton (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) Species Diversity and Chemotypes. PLoS One (accepted).

cheers!

New paper!

Finally, our backlog of papers is getting reduced!

Accepted (provisionally) today:
James Davis Reimer, Meifang Lin, Takuma Fujii, David Lane, Bert Hoeksema. The phylogenetic position of the solitary zoanthid Sphenopus (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Contributions to Zoology.

cheers.

new paper!

Here it is:

Saving an octocoral genus from a “zoanthid” genus: reversal of precedence of Palythoe Lamouroux, 1812, and Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia). M.E.Y. Low and J.D. Reimer. Zootaxa.

More coming; 10+ papers in review!

New paper!

Just accepted:

Masami Obuchi, James Davis Reimer. Does Acanthaster planci preferably prey on the reef zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa? Galaxea (accepted).

New papers!

Jun Nishikawa, Richard Fitzpatrick, Robin Beaman, James Reimer, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Dhugal Lindsay. First record of the pygmy seahorse Hippocampus denise from Australia. Galaxea.


Martyn E.Y. Low, James Davis Reimer. Parazoanthus Haddon & Shackleton, 1891, and Parazoanthidae Delage & Hérouard, 1901: Conservation of usage by Reversal of Precedence with Bergia Duchassing & Michelotti, 1860, and Bergiidae Verrill, 1869 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). Zootaxa.

Coming soon!

A paper at PLoS One:

Palytoxin found in Palythoa sp. zoanthids (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) sold in the home aquarium trade

JR Deeds, SM Handy, KD White, JD Reimer

Almost accepted, and should be an interesting read.

another paper

Our recent submission to the journal Contributions to Zoology was accepted!

James Davis Reimer, Mamiko Hirose, Peter Wirtz. Zoanthids of the Cape Verde Islands and their symbionts: previously unexamined diversity in the Northeastern Atlantic. Contributions to Zoology (accepted).

new papers! & update

Slow summer, many people off doing field work.

Two new papers:
1. James Davis Reimer, Frederic Sinniger. Discovery and description of a new species of Abyssoanthus (Zoantharia: Hexacorallia) at the Japan Trench: the world’s deepest known zoanthid. Cahiers de Biologie Marine (accepted).
2. Yoko Nozawa, Kouki Tanaka, James Davis Reimer. Reconsideration of surface structure of settlement plates used in coral recruitment studies. Zoological Studies (accepted).

Also, from September 19-26, our lab will have a display at Okinawa Prefectural Aquarium - part of a Rising Star poster session., Drop by and check it out.

Other news:
1. TF is back from the CReefs Lizard Island trip. Trip details can be found at:
http://www.aims.gov.au/creefs/latest-field-trip-lizard-2010.html

2. Both a recent Epizoanthus paper and a paper in Marine Biotechnology are the cover articles for their issue.

New paper!

A small paper of ours was accepted:

MDMR Shah, JD Reimer, T Horiguchi, S Suda. Diversity of dinoflagellate blooms in reef flat tide pools at Okinawa, Japan. Galaxea (accepted).

Once it is out please check our homepage for details!

JDR

first paper of 2010!

Just accepted at Galaxea:

Shusuke Ono, James Davis Reimer, Yoko Nozawa, Junzo Tsukahara. Long-term changes of infra-littoral zooxanthellate cnidarians in the Taisho Lava Field, Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan. Galaxea (accepted).

Also, FS's great Parazoanthidae paper is now available on the net for download from the homepage for Marine Biodiversity.

cheers!

new MISE papers!

Three recent papers of ours have been accepted:

1.Frederic Sinniger, James Davis Reimer, Jan Pawlowski. The Parazoanthidae DNA taxonomy: description of two new genera. Marine Biodiversity (accepted).
2.James Davis Reimer, Shu Nakachi, Mamiko Hirose, Euichi Hirose, Shinji Hashiguchi. Using hydrofluoric acid for morphological investigations of zoanthids (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): a critical assessment of methodology and necessity. Marine Biotechnology (accepted).
3.James Davis Reimer. Key to field identification of shallow water brachycnemic zoanthids (Order Zoantharia: Suborder Brachycnemina) present in Okinawa. Galaxea (accepted).

Contact us for more information!

New MISE papers (last few months)

More papers from our members. Contact us for reprints!

1. Frederic Sinniger, James Davis Reimer, Jan Pawlowski. 2008. Potential of DNA sequences to identify zoanthids (Cnidaria: Zoantharia). Zoological Science 25: 1253-1260.
2. James Davis Reimer, Shusuke Ono, Frederic Sinniger, Junzo Tsukahara. 2008. Distribution of zooxanthellate zoanthid species (Zoantharia: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) in southern Japan limited by cold temperatures. Galaxea 10: 1-11.
3. James Davis Reimer, Peter A. Todd. 2009. Preliminary molecular examination of zooxanthellate zoanthid (Hexacorallia, Zoantharia) and associated zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. (in press).