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Pseudomonas marincola sp. nov., isolated from marine environments.

Marine natural products.

Coelomic expression of a novel bone morphogenetic protein in regenerating arms of the brittle star Amphiura filiformis.

Congener-specific accumulation and trophic transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls in spider crab food webs revealed by stable isotope analysis.

Development of the nervous system in the brittle star Amphipholis kochii.

NF-kappaB-inhibiting naphthopyrones from the Fijian echinoderm Comanthus parvicirrus.

Discovery of two rare species of stalked crinoids from Okinawa Trough, southwestern Japan, and their systematic and biogeographic implications.

Deuterostomes in a twist: the origins of a radical new body plan.

Introgression versus immigration in hybridizing high-dispersal echinoderms.

Effects of sediment organic matter quality on bioaccumulation, degradation, and distribution of pyrene in two macrofaunal species and their surrounding sediment.

Benzochromenones from the marine crinoid Comantheria rotula inhibit hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) in cell-based reporter assays and differentially suppress the growth of certain tumor cell lines.

Mitochondrial genome and nuclear sequence data support myzostomida as part of the annelid radiation.

The echinoderm collagen fibril: a hero in the connective tissue research of the 1990s.

Spatio-temporal variation of the structural organization of demersal communities in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.

Ribosomal RNA genes and deuterostome phylogeny revisited: more cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, reptiles, and a brittle star.

Abundance and size distribution dynamics of abyssal epibenthic megafauna in the northeast Pacific.

Bioactive constituents from the marine crinoid Himerometra magnipinna.

[On the evolution of the chordates bodyplan].

Time and extent of ciliary response to particles in a non-filtering feeding mechanism.

A new 2,3-dimethyl butenolide from the brittle star Ophiomastix mixta.