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).

23 Feb. lab. meeting

1 sequence
if you have the DNA samples need to do sequence, please tell Jaime.

2 boat diving plan
 3 Mar. - 4, we will go diving Ourawan.
14 Mar. - 15 or 16 Mar. - 17, we will go diving Teniya.
If you want to go, please tell Jaime.

3 fishing plan
Jaime parents will come and go fishing, Payao.
Its date don't be decided yet, may be any day, 20 Mar. - 26
If you want to go, please tell Jaime.

4 cleaning
the end of March or the start of April, let's clean our room.

5 Jamie live at Uruma, so he can't come back Univ. at night.
Skype is usable.

6 Coral reef book
If you want the coral reef book which is published by the committee of coral reef,
please tell it Jamie or Takuma-san.

7 Coral work shop 'the identification and classification of coral' will be hold at 24 Mar. -27.
If you are interested in, send e-mail.

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).