Crustacean-sponge symbiosis: collecting and maintaining sponge-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Acastinae) for studies on host specificity and larval biology

The formation of lunule-like hollows in shells of the acorn barnacle Tetraclitella chinensis (Nilsson-Cantell, 1921), with a reappraisal of the taxonomic status of T. multicostata (Nilsson-Cantell, 1930) (Cirripedia: Tetraclitidae)

(2019) Hyun Kyong Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

A new species of the deep-sea spongicolid genus Spongicoloides (Crustacea, Decapoda, Stenopodidea) and a new species of the glass sponge genus Corbitella (Hexactinellida, Lyssacinosida, Euplectellidae) from a seamount near the Mariana Trench, with a novel commensal relationship between the two genera

(2018) Qi Kou et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Living with marginal coral communities: Diversity and host-specificity in coral-associated barnacles in the northern coral distribution limit of the East China Sea

(2018) Benny K. K. Chan et al.   PLoS One

On a new commensal species of Aliaporcellana from the western Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Porcellanidae)

(2018) Alexandra Hiller et al.   ZooKeys

Presence of Amphibalanus eburneus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) in Gomishan Wetland: Molecular and morphological evidence of a new introduction to the southern Caspian Sea

(2018) Zahra Jaberimanesh et al.   Regional Studies in Marine Science

Differential growth forms of the sponge Biemna fortis govern the abundance of its associated brittle star Ophiactis modesta

(2017) Azraj S. Dahihande et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

A new genus and species of abyssal sponge commonly encrusting polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, East Pacific Ocean

(2017) Swee-Cheng Lim et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Descriptions of four new sponge-inhabiting barnacles (Thoracica: Archaeobalanidae: Acastinae)

(2017) MENG-CHEN YU et al.   ZOOTAXA

Description of five new coral associated Barnacles of the genus Trevathana (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) in Pacific Waters

(2017) BENNY KWOK KAN CHAN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Host-specific assembly of sponge-associated prokaryotes at high taxonomic ranks

(2017) Georg Steinert et al.   Scientific Reports

Larval rearing of the giant Azorean barnacle, Megabalanus azoricus (Pilsbry, 1916): feeding trials, larval development and settlement on artificial substrata

(2016) Carla Nunes et al.   AQUACULTURE RESEARCH

How do coral barnacles start their life in their hosts?

(2016) Jennie Chien Wen Liu et al.   Biology Letters

Molecular biodiversity of Red Sea demosponges

(2016) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Phylogenetic relationships of Darwin’s “Mr. Arthrobalanus”: The burrowing barnacles (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica)

(2016) Hsiu-Chin Lin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenies challenge the classification of Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) based on morphology

(2016) Alexander Plotkin et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Multiple host switching events shape the evolution of symbiotic palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)

(2016) Ivona Horká et al.   Scientific Reports

Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)

(2015) Christine Morrow et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Diversity in a Cold Hot-Spot: DNA-Barcoding Reveals Patterns of Evolution among Antarctic Demosponges (Class Demospongiae, Phylum Porifera)

(2015) Sergio Vargas et al.   PLoS One

Molecular phylogeny, systematics and morphological evolution of the acorn barnacles (Thoracica: Sessilia: Balanomorpha)

(2014) Marcos Pérez-Losada et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Morphological and host specificity evolution in coral symbiont barnacles (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) inferred from a multi-locus phylogeny

(2014) Ling Ming Tsang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Biodiversity and host specificity of coral barnacles of Galkinia (Cirripedia: Pyrgomatidae) in Taiwan, with descriptions of six new species

(2013) Benny K. K. Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships among the Caribbean members of the Cliona viridis complex (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida) using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

(2012) Dairo Escobar et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part II: sponge-dwellers

(2012) Kristine White et al.   ZooKeys

Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae)

(2011) C.C. Morrow et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

These Squatters Are Not Innocent: The Evidence of Parasitism in Sponge-Inhabiting Shrimps

(2011) Zdeněk Ďuriš et al.   PLoS One

Morphology and evolutionary ecology of a sponge-barnacle symbiosis: Four new genera of barnacles (Archaeobalanidae, Bryozobiinae)

(2010) Robert J. Van Syoc et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Antennular specialization in cyprids of coral-associated barnacles

(2010) I. Brickner et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Host-associated speciation in the coral barnacleWanella milleporae(Cirripedia: Pyrgomatidae) inhabiting theMilleporacoral

(2009) LING MING TSANG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A new sponge-inhabiting amphipod species (Crustacea, Gammaridea, Sebidae) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, southwestern Gulf of Mexico

(2009) Ignacio Winfield et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

A New Sponge-Inhabiting Loxosomella (Entoprocta: Loxosomatidae) from Okinawa Island, Japan, with Special Focus on Foot Structure

(2009) Tohru Iseto et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The functional roles of marine sponges

(2008) James J. Bell   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE