Chitons are common marine mollusks mainly inhabiting intertidal and shallow subtidal worldwide. They, belonging to class Polyplacophora, can be recognized by their eight overlapping shell plates (also known as valves), which are firmly surrounded ...
04 18, 2019
The intensity of Kuroshio Current east of Taiwan shows a clear seasonality, and the Kuroshio Current is strongly affected by mesoscale eddies from the subtropical countercurrent (STCC) region, but the contribution of eddies to the seasonality of t...
04 03, 2019
Mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus are one of the dominant species in two kinds of unique deep-sea habitats, cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, which are characterized by abundant reduced compounds (i.e., CH4, H2S). These mussels exhibit a very hi...
04 01, 2019
Copepods are the most common pelagic metazoans in the ocean, accounting for as high as over 70% of total mesozooplankton abundance at most cases. Previous studies revealed that copepods fecal pellets (FPs) played significant role in the carbon exp...
04 01, 2019Recently, an international research team led by Prof. LI Bing from IMR has found that a class of disordered materials, called plastic crystals, exhibit record-large barocaloric effects under very weak pressure.
03 28, 2019
