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The North Sea benthic system: a 36 year time-series

C.L.J. Frid, P.R Garwood and L.A. Robinson

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 1-10

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002956 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Nov 2008

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Distribution of plankton and hydrography in relation to Great Sole, Cockburn and Little Sole Banks

M.K. Barnes, S.H. Coombs, N.C. Halliday and R.D. Pingree

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 11-18

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002841 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Nov 2008

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Macrofaunal community responses to marina-related pollution on the south coast of England and west coast of France

Myriam D. Callier, Robert L. Fletcher, Clifford H. Thorp and Denis Fichet

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 19-29

doi:10.1017/S002531540800235X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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Decomposing diversity patterns of a soft-bottom macroinvertebrate community in the tropical eastern Pacific

E. Godínez-Domínguez, J. Freire, C. Franco-Gordo and G. González-Sansón

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 31-38

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Aug 2008

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Distribution, extent of inter-annual variability and diet of the bloom-forming jellyfish Rhizostoma in European waters

M.K.S. Lilley, J.D.R. Houghton and G.C. Hays

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 39-48

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002439 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Sep 2008

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Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Levant Sea (mainly Lebanon), with emphasis on alien species

Carla Morri, Stefania Puce, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Ghazi Bitar, Helmut Zibrowius and Giorgio Bavestrello

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 49-62

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002749 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Oct 2008

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Documentation of potential courtship-behaviour in Periphylla periphylla (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Henry Tiemann, Ilka Sötje, Blair D. Johnston, Per R. Flood and Ulf Båmstedt

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 63-66

doi:10.1017/S0025315408001264 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Jul 2008

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Hydrocoryne iemanja (Cnidaria), a new species of Hydrozoa with unusual mode of asexual reproduction

André C. Morandini, Sérgio N. Stampar, Alvaro E. Migotto and Antonio C. Marques

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 67-76

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002968 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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Biochemical composition of the mesopelagic coronate jellyfish Periphylla periphylla from the Gulf of Mexico

Cathy H. Lucas

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 77-81

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002804 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Nov 2008

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On the use of experimental diets for physiological studies of hydrozoans

Steve Dudgeon, Kylla M. Benes, Stacy A. Krueger, Janet Kübler, Paul Mroz and Christin T. Slaughter

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 83-88

doi:10.1017/S0025315408001343 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Jul 2008

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Trophic ecology of the octocoral Carijoa riisei from littoral of Pernambuco, Brazil. I. Composition and spatio-temporal variation of the diet

Ana K.F. Lira, Jean-Philippe Naud, Paula B. Gomes, Andre M. Santos and Carlos D. Perez

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 89-99

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002385 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Jul 2008

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Fragmentation and genotypic diversity of the scleractinian coral Montipora capitata in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

A. Nishikawa, R.A. Kinzie and K. Sakai

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 101-107

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002865 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Nov 2008

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Environmental factors affecting nematode community structure in the Changjiang Estuary and its adjacent waters

E. Hua, Z.N. Zhang and Y. Zhang

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 109-117

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002361 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Nov 2008

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Spectral sensitivity, visual pigments and screening pigments in two life history stages of the ontogenetic migrator Gnathophausia ingens

Tamara M. Frank, Megan Porter and Thomas W. Cronin

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 119-129

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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Bathymetric range, density and reproductive biology of the deep-sea cirrate octopus Opisthoteuthis calypso in the Portuguese continental slope

Rui Rosa, João Pereira and Ana Moreno

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 131-134

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002531 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Sep 2008

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Long-term tributyltin (TBT)-induced sterilization of neogastropods: persistence of effects in Ocenebra erinacea over 20 years in the vicinity of Falmouth (Cornwall, UK)

P.E. Gibbs

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 135-138

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002336 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Aug 2008

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Effects of TBT on the imposex development, reproduction and mortality in Hexaplex trunculus (Gastropoda: Muricidae)

Sami Abidli, Youssef Lahbib and Najoua Trigui El Menif

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 139-146

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002282 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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Seasonal variations in the density of and corallivory by Drupella rugosa and Cronia margariticola (Caenogastropoda: Muricidae) from the coastal waters of Hong Kong: ‘plagues’ or ‘aggregations’?

Brian Morton and Graham Blackmore

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 147-159

doi:10.1017/S002531540800218X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 17 Nov 2008

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Reproductive characteristics of Calyptogena gallardoi (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) from a methane seep area off Concepción, Chile

Macarena Parra, Javier Sellanes, Enrique Dupré and Elena Krylova

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 161-169

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002397 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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First description of spawning in a deep water loliginid squid, Loligo forbesi (Cephalopoda: Myopsida)

Christopher K. Pham, Gilberto P. Carreira, Filipe M. Porteiro, João M. Gonçalves, Frederico Cardigos and Helen R. Martins

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 171-177

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002415 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Sep 2008

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Potential impacts of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions on Mediterranean marine ecosystems and cetaceans

D.D. Gambaiani, P. Mayol, S.J. Isaac and M.P. Simmonds

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 179-201

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002476 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 23 Sep 2008

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Climate change and cetaceans: concerns and recent developments

Mark P. Simmonds and Wendy J. Eliott

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 203-210

doi:10.1017/S0025315408003196 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 20 Feb 2009

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Spinner dolphin ( Stenella longirostris) resting habitat in Samadai Reef (Egypt, Red Sea) protected through tourism management

Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, Mahmoud H. Hanafy, Moustafa M. Fouda, Ayman Afifi and Marina Costa

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 89, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 211-216

doi:10.1017/S0025315408002221 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 25 Sep 2008

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