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.

update from Izu

Hi all,

6 lab members are in Izu now, at Tsukuba University's oceanside lab. We are sampling by SCUBA for two days, very cold! We have found some great samples, however, so we are all quite happy.

As well, 2 more papers from our lab accepted, expect to see them soon online:

1. Kristine N. White, James Davis Reimer. Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part III: coral rubble-dwellers. ZooKeys (in press).

2. Catalina Aguilar, Masanori Nonaka, James Davis Reimer. The Melithaeidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago: molecular and morphological examinations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (in press)

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.

new paper!

Hi all,

Another paper of ours was accepted at the journal Pacific Science.

Marzia Bo, Antonella Lavorato, Cristina G. Di Camillo, Angelo Poliseno, Andrés Baquero, Giorgio Bavestrello, Yuka Irei, James Davis Reimer. Black coral assemblages from Machalilla National Park (Ecuador). Pacific Science (accepted).

This was the result of collaboration with an Italian and Ecuadorean group.

New paper!

Just accepted at Zoologica Scripta:

52. Takuma Fujii, James Davis Reimer. Phylogeny of the highly divergent family Microzoanthidae (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) from the Pacific. Zoologica Scripta.

A new family!

PTX making waves

Looks like the paper in PLoS One is making some waves:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/05/world’s-2nd-deadliest-poison-in-an-aquarium-store-near-you/

cheers,

J with a big thanks to Kevin Zelnio for finding this!

Our new paper on palytoxin is finally out at PLoS One:

Palytoxin Found in Palythoa sp. Zoanthids (Anthozoa,
Hexacorallia) Sold in the Home Aquarium Trade.
Jonathan R. Deeds, Sara M. Handy, Kevin D. White, James D. Reimer. 2011.6: e18235

New paper!

Hello all,

YI's first paper was accepted at Zoological Studies - congratulations!

Yuka Irei, Yoko Nozawa, James Davis Reimer. Distribution patterns of five zoanthid species in Okinawa Island, Japan. Zoological Studies (accepted).

Another paper....

Our paper at Systematics and Biodiversity was accepted:

James Davis Reimer, Mamiko Hirose, Kensuke Yanagi, Frederic Sinniger. Marine invertebrate diversity in the oceanic Ogasawara Islands: a molecular examination of zoanthids (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) and their Symbiodinium (Dinophycaea). Systematics and Biodiversity (accepted).

Another paper!

Short one on Terpios on the GBR!

Takuma Fujii, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Wenhua Zhou, Euichi Hirose, Allen Chen, James Davis Reimer. Coral-killing cyanobacteriosponge (Terpios hoshinota) on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs (in press).

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.

Happy New Year, and a new paper!

2011 looks to be a great year for MISE. We hope you all have a wonderful year, and enjoy your field work.

Also, one new paper accepted at Marine Biology today:
James Davis Reimer, Mamiko Hirose, Yuka Irei, Masami Obuchi, Frederic Sinniger. The sands of time: Rediscovery of the genus Neozoanthus (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) and evolutionary aspects of sand encrustation in brachycnemic zoanthids. Marine Biology (accepted).

new paper!

We had a new paper on spawning in Palythoa accepted - congratulations to Mamiko for her hard work!

Mamiko Hirose, Masami Obuchi, Euichi Hirose, James Davis Reimer. Timing of spawning and early development of Palythoa tuberculosa (Anthozoa, Zoantharia, Sphenopidae) in Okinawa, Japan. Biological Bulletin (accepted).

new paper!

Another paper of ours was accepted today:

James Davis Reimer, Masami Obuchi, Yuka Irei, Takuma Fujii, Yoko Nozawa. Shallow water brachycnemic zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from Taiwan: a preliminary survey. Zoological Studies (accepted).