Invertebrates make up more than 70 percent of the approximately 1.9 million described species on Earth. These creatures have long served as model organisms in many areas of biology. Sea urchins, for ...

The project was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR) Program, Award #1458145: “CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Incorporation of MBARI and Univ.

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones—spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

To find out more about viruses, a collaborative metagenomics project between the University of Sydney and the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing was done, and reported in ...

If you will be working with vertebrate or invertebrate animals you will need to complete and submit the Animal Use Request/Registration (AUR) electronic form (eForm). Invertebrates must be registered ...

Microplastics were recently found in a small invertebrate animal, officially called the "Cryptopygus antarcticus," that lives in the soil of the Antarctic.

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) office is responsible for maintaining proper record-keeping required to ensure clear accountability for the quality of the program, proper ...

Jonathan Birch is Professor of Philosophy at the LSE and Principal Investigator (PI) on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project. In 2021, he led a "Review of the Evidence of Sentience in ...

Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside in the eastern parts of the country in its freshwater drainages, including Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of ...