Macrostylis metallicola spec. nov.—an isopod with geographically clustered genetic variability from a polymetallic-nodule area in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone

Scheme to mine the abyss gets sea trial

(2019) Paul Voosen   SCIENCE

Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions

(2019) Olive Heffernan   NATURE

Biological effects 26 years after simulated deep-sea mining

(2019) Erik Simon-Lledó et al.   Scientific Reports

Biogeography and population structure of predominant macrofaunal taxa (Annelida and Isopoda) in abyssal polymetallic nodule fields: implications for conservation and management

(2019) Annika Janssen et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field

(2019) Magdalini Christodoulou et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uniting what belongs together—Reevaluation of the isopod species Macrostylis grandis and M. ovata using ontogenetic, morphological and genetic evidence

(2019) Torben Riehl et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Molecular species delimitation and its implications for species descriptions using desmosomatid and nannoniscid isopods from the VEMA fracture zone as example taxa

(2018) Saskia Brix et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The effects of depth, distance, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on genetic differentiation of abyssal and hadal isopods (Macrostylidae)

(2018) Torben Riehl et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of abyssal benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean?

(2018) Simon Bober et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Integrative species delimitation in the deep-sea genus Thaumastosoma Hessler, 1970 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) reveals a new genus and species from the Atlantic and central Pacific abyss

(2018) Stefanie Kaiser et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Peritrich epibionts on the hadal isopod species Macrostylis marionae n. sp. from the Puerto Rico Trench used as indicator for sex-specific behaviour

(2018) Katharina Kniesz et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms

(2018) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Hidden diversity in two species complexes of munnopsid isopods (Crustacea) at the transition between the northernmost North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas

(2018) Sarah Schnurr et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Discovery of vibrant deep-sea life prompts new worries over seabed mining

(2018) Amy Maxmen   NATURE

Implications of population connectivity studies for the design of marine protected areas in the deep sea: An example of a demosponge from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2018) Sergi Taboada et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone

(2018) Erik Simon-Lledó et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there

(2018) Adrian G Glover et al.   eLife

Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

(2017) Sabine Gollner et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

New Macrostylidae (Isopoda) from the Northwest Pacific Basin described by means of integrative taxonomy with reference to geographical barriers in the abyss

(2017) Simon Bober et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

An organ of equilibrium in deep-sea isopods revealed: the statocyst of Macrostylidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Janiroidea)

(2017) Simon Bober et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Terrace Aware Data Structure for Phylogenomic Inference from Supermatrices

(2016) Olga Chernomor et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

ArcticPholoe(Polychaeta: Pholoidae): when integrative taxonomy helps to sort out barcodes

(2016) Karin Meißner et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Caught in the act: an abyssal isopod collected while feeding on Komokiaceae

(2016) Torben Riehl et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Macrofauna abundance, species diversity and turnover at three sites in the Clipperton-Clarion Fracture Zone

(2016) George D. F. Wilson   Marine Biodiversity

Threatened by mining, polymetallic nodules are required to preserve abyssal epifauna

(2016) Ann Vanreusel et al.   Scientific Reports

Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2016) Diva J. Amon et al.   Scientific Reports

The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis

(2015) Johannes Schindelin et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

A Reverse Taxonomic Approach to Assess Macrofaunal Distribution Patterns in Abyssal Pacific Polymetallic Nodule Fields

(2015) Annika Janssen et al.   PLoS One

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adding depth to line artwork by digital stippling—a step-by-step guide to the method

(2014) Simon Bober et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Urstylidae - a new family of abyssal isopods (Crustacea: Asellota) and its phylogenetic implications

(2014) Torben Riehl et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

New species of Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler 1977 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (equatorial NE Pacific)

(2014) STEFANIE KAISER   ZOOTAXA

A new genus and new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Isopoda) from the eastern South Atlantic abyss described by means of integrative taxonomy

(2014) Saskia Brix et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Southern Ocean Macrostylidae reviewed with a key to the species and new descriptions from Maud Rise

(2013) TORBEN RIEHL et al.   ZOOTAXA

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Evidence for Permo-Triassic colonization of the deep sea by isopods

(2012) L. S. F. Lins et al.   Biology Letters

A new species of Wellsopsyllus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) from the deep Southern Ocean and remarks on its biogeography

(2012) Johanna Kottmann et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Conquered from the Deep Sea? A New Deep-Sea Isopod Species from the Antarctic Shelf Shows Pattern of Recent Colonization

(2012) Torben Riehl et al.   PLoS One

Large, enigmatic foraminiferan-like protists in the eastern part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (abyssal north-eastern subequatorial Pacific): biodiversity and vertical distribution in the sediment

(2012) Olga Kamenskaya et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Seven new and four known species of the genus Acantholaimus (Nematoda: Chromadoridae) from the abyssal manganese nodule field (Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, North-Eastern Tropical Pacific)

(2011) Maria A. Miljutina et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

Assessment of Congo red as a fluorescence marker for the exoskeleton of small crustaceans and the cuticle of polychaetes

(2010) J. MICHELS et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Species delimitation - a geneious plugin for the exploration of species boundaries

(2010) BRADLEY C. MASTERS et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Long-distance island hopping without dispersal stages: transportation across major zoogeographic barriers in a Southern Ocean isopod

(2010) Florian Leese et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Descriptions of two new species in the genus Macrostylis Sars, 1864 (Isopoda, Asellota, Macrostylidae) from the Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean), with a synonymisation of the genus Desmostylis Brandt, 1992 with Macrostylis

(2010) Torben Riehl et al.   ZooKeys

NCBI BLAST: a better web interface

(2008) M. Johnson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Multiple origins of deep-sea Asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) from shallow waters revealed by molecular data

(2008) M. J Raupach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES