[Coral-List] fish sleep; sea squirt development; clownfish & light pollution; slime

[Douglas Fenner]

Snooze report

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/571/issues/7764

Both fish and humans have REM-like sleep

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/both-fish-and-humans-have-rem-sleep?tgt=nr


Tauber ES, Weitzman ED  (1969)  Eye movements during behavioral inactivity
in certain Bermuda reef fish.  Communications in Behavioral Biology A3:
131-135.

Neural signatures of sleep in zebrafish

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1336-7.epdf?referrer_access_token=eajTfRe3foWXADiMS-M0dtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0P5iadBs1s4YB5Nx_QJfuD9j6sNPali1XfkDIkaOdEnhOtGAuhc5qDTRB4LtENS4iI6L7mJ7BJZ8KB0wZMPBIwpM4Rk9Fz2z0oLmT1agduo50KveTx-ufmj8MGqLONk1ZQqCq-5sUXSY_lo6M_oTonthR3Og9uyAJGvD4L6vkE2lf9h2lVpzaBIEugzZfxMInwQAQM79wEKgS1UfAlOZ554zwHGinWFqonH15uHhzMQvg%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.sciencenews.org


Open-access

A deep dive into the development of sea squirts
  An analysis of gene expression in sea-squirt embryos at different stages
of development deepens our understanding of how the body plans of
vertebrates might have evolved from those of less complex animals.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01967-0?WT.ec_id=NATURE-201907&sap-outbound-id=BF2077CFC41470BB4A5C72D1DE9BD0240F72D0C0&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_SKN6563_0000012938_41586-Nature-20190711-EAlert&utm_content=EN_internal_28905_20190711&mkt-key=005056B0331B1ED782EEA4D8C7ECAFA3

Open-access

Comprehensive single-cell transcriptome lineages of a proto-vertebrate

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1385-y

Blinding Nemo: Artificial lights prevent Clownfish eggs from hatching


https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/blinding-nemo-artificial-lights-prevent-clownfish-eggs-hatching?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-07-10&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2900477


Open-access

These fish eggs aren't hatching.  The culprit?  Light pollution.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/these-fish-eggs-not-hatching-problem-light-pollution/


open-access

Artificial light may alter underwater ecosystems

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/artificial-light-may-alter-underwater-ecosystems

open-access

Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0272

not open-access

A brief history of slime
Christopher Howe delights in a new book on the planet's most powerful
organisms - algae.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01732-3?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=6c2336f435-briefing-dy-20190603_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-6c2336f435-43423877


open-access

Cheers,  Doug



-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

A call to climate action  (Science editorial)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/807?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-05-30&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2840296

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change

Want a Green New Deal?  Here's a better one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-a-green-new-deal-heres-a-better-one/2019/02/24/2d7e491c-36d2-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.a3fc8337cbf8