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SUBMITTER: Yamamori L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113561 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
iScience 20200226 3
Among diverse stalked barnacles, Rugilepas pearsei (Thoracica: Cirripedia: Arthropoda) is a rare unique species that is associated with echinoids and has highly atrophied cirri. We rediscovered the barnacle for the first time from description and verified that the barnacles live obligately in half-open galls formed on the test of the sea urchin Echinothrix diadema (Diadematidae: Echinodermata). A molecular phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the obligate association with echinoids derived fr ...[more]