Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Testing antimitotic agents to induce diploid gametophytes for the production of sterile triploid sporophytes in sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima)

Abstract The development of non-reproductive seaweeds could alleviate environmental concerns associated with the upscaling of seaweed aquaculture and the deployment of genetically improved cultivars containing non-local genetic material. However, current means to produce triploid...

Sea Level Emulator Intercomparison Project (SLEIP) Phase 1: Assessing emulated multi-century global mean sea level projections

Abstract. Simplified sea level modelling approaches calibrated against reference data, also referred to as sea level emulators, can explore future sea level rise and associated uncertainties with low computational cost. Here, we introduce the Sea Level Emulator Intercomparison Pr...

A FAIR annotated set of 60k+ in situ zooplankton images from the Greater North Sea and Greenland

Abstract. The North Sea is a productive shelf sea with a wide variety of hydrographic and biological conditions. It is subject to high anthropogenic pressures, including climate change, terrestrial nutrient loading, and the development of offshore wind farms, and the associated e...

Females of a socially polyandrous, sex-role reversed shorebird visit multiple breeding sites within a single season

In species with uniparental care, the non-caring sex is expected to pursue mating opportunities throughout the breeding season to maximize reproductive success. Accordingly, males in some socially polygynous species have been observed to visit multiple potential breeding sites wi...

Domain-combination based pan-genomic tree of life

Abstract Reconstructing the Tree of Life (ToL) remains a central challenge in evolutionary biology. While sequence-based methods have resolved much of life’s diversity, deep evolutionary relationships often remain elusive, particularly across the three superkingdoms of life. Here...