During an expedition of the New Britain Trench (8,824 m, 7.02 S, 149.16 E) in the West Pacific Ocean conducted in 2016, our group collected 10 A. gigantea individuals with attached eggs with a full ...

The purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has been used for over 150 years as a model organism in developmental biology. Using this model species, scientists have been able to describe, in ...