Browsing The Ryan Institute (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Escolar, Oscar"

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    • Born with bristles: New insights on the Kölliker’s organs of Octopus skin 

      Villanueva, Roger; Coll-Lladó, Montserrat; Bonnaud-Ponticelli, Laure; Carrasco, Sergio A.; Escolar, Oscar; Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Gleadall, Ian G.; Nabhitabhata, Jaruwat; Ortiz, Nicolás; Rosas, Carlos; Sánchez, Pilar; Voight, Janet R.; Swoger, Jim (Frontiers Media, 2021-05-10)
      The entire skin surface of octopus embryos, hatchlings and juveniles bears scattered tufts of tiny chitinous setae within small pockets, from which they can be everted and retracted. Known as Kölliker’s organs (KO), they ...

    • Potentially handicapped but otherwise functional: Malformations in prey capture tools show no impacts on octopus life 

      Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Farré, Marc; Antoni Sánchez‐Márquez, Antoni; Villanueva, Roger; Escolar, Oscar; Navarro, Joan (Wiley, 2020-10-17)
      Larval mortality is a keystone ecological factor for many benthic octopus since it mostly occurs before their settlement in the sea bottom as benthic juveniles. The literature had revealed that records of adult animals ...