The yellowstripe scad, Selaroides leptolepis (Carangidae), is an important fish commodity in the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP). It has a latitudinal range from south of Japan down to northern Australia, with highest concentration Southeast Asia. However, its TWP fishing grounds have long been hotspot unsustainable exploitations, thus threatening remaining wild populations. Despite species’ com...

We applied two-photon polymerization to fabricate 3D synthetic niches arranged in complex patterns to study the effect of mechano-topological parameters on morphology, renewal and differentiation of rat mesenchymal stromal cells. Niches were formed in a photoresist with low auto-fluorescence, which enabled the clear visualization of the fluorescence emission of the markers used for biological d...

As biological research is increasingly concerned with the description of the reactions and adjustments of individuals to the more subtle environmental changes and chronic rather than acute states, there is a growing demand for healthy animals of known lineage-and the necessity for their maintenance under experimental circumstances in normal condition; a demand that arises at a time when a large...

The Entoprocta is a poorly known lineage of suspension-feeding animals, with 180 described species, most of which are colonial or commensal. A small number of interstitial entoprocts are known, and these are from very few localities in Europe and the eastern coast of North America. We found the solitary entoproct reported here while undertaking a meiofaunal biodiversity survey off the western c...