Los Angeles Times: Sea urchins made to order: Scripps scientists make transgenic breakthrough
Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...
BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Nov. 9, 2006 Who would have guessed that the lowly sea urchin, that brain-less, limb-less porcupine of the sea, would be the star of a multi-million dollar, worldwide effort to ...
Los Angeles Times: Plague of purple sea urchins ravages California’s offshore ecosystem, heads to Oregon
NEWPORT, Ore. — Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the ...
Plague of purple sea urchins ravages California’s offshore ecosystem, heads to Oregon
news.ucsc: Destruction and recovery of kelp forests driven by changes in sea urchin behavior
Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...
Destruction and recovery of kelp forests driven by changes in sea urchin behavior
Scientists have just spent considerable effort reading the complete gene set of the sea urchin. It turns out, the sea urchin has a lot to tell us about how we develop from a single cell into a ...
Oregonian: Sea urchins are chomping their way through Oregon coast kelp, ‘uncharted territory’ for marine ecosystem
NEWPORT — Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the ...