Aquatic plants of the genus Ruppia inhabit some of the most threatened habitats in the world, such as coastal lagoons and inland saline to brackish waters where their...
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MEF2C is a crucial transcription factor for cranial neural crest cells development.

Understanding the factors that affect seagrass meadows encompassing their entire range of distribution is challenging yet important for their conservation.

Past climate-driven range shifts shaped intraspecific diversities of species world-wide.

The present study aimed to investigate the response of macrobenthic assemblages along a gradient of metal contamination using a combination of uni- and multivariate...

Seagrasses colonized the sea(1) on at least three independent occasions to form the basis of one of the most productive and widespread coastal ecosystems on the...

The seagrass Halophila stipulacea is a Lessepsian migrant that has spread from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea where some authors consider it invasive.

The highly valuable red coral Corallium rubrum is listed in several Mediterranean Conventions for species protection and management since the 1980s.

Global climate change is shifting species distributions worldwide.

The effect of two anesthetics, 2-phenoxyethanol (2-PE) and clove oil (COil) were studied in meagre, Argyrosomus regius.