Mark Norman

Deep-sea seven-arm octopus hijacks jellyfish in shallow waters

R Rosa, JT Kelly, VM Lopes, JR Paula, J Gonçalves, R Calado, MD Norman, JP Barreiros

Journal article  |  2019  |  Marine Biodiversity

Pelagic octopods have secondarily left the seafloor and evolved a holopelagic existence. One of the most striking adaptations amon..

Genetic evidence extends the known distribution of Octopus insularis to the mid-Atlantic islands Ascension and St Helena

MD Amor, V Laptikhovsky, MD Norman, JM Strugnell

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Recent molecular studies have proved beneficial in providing taxonomic resolution within the Octopus vulgaris species complex, the..

Morphological assessment of the Octopus vulgaris species complex evaluated in light of molecular-based phylogenetic inferences

MD Amor, MD Norman, A Roura, TS Leite, IG Gleadall, A Reid, C Perales-Raya, CC Lu, CJ Silvey, EAG Vidal, FG Hochberg, X Zheng, JM Strugnell

Journal article  |  2017  |  Zoologica Scripta

Cryptic species are common in the ocean, particularly among marine invertebrates such as octopuses. Delineating cryptic species is..

Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods.

Martin J How, Mark D Norman, Julian Finn, Wen-Sung Chung, N Justin Marshall

Journal article  |  2017  |  Front Physiol

Cephalopods are unrivaled in the natural world in their ability to alter their visual appearance. These mollusks have evolved a co..

Temporal patterns of association between the jellyfish Catostylus mosaicus and a sphaeromatid isopod and parasitic anemone

JG Browne, KA Pitt, MD Norman

Journal article  |  2017  |  Marine and Freshwater Research

Jellyfish form associations with a diverse fauna including parasites and commensals, yet, ecological data on these associations, p..

A combined proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of slime secreted by the southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum (Cephalopoda).

Nikeisha J Caruana, Ira R Cooke, Pierre Faou, Julian Finn, Nathan E Hall, Mark Norman, Sandy S Pineda, Jan M Strugnell

Journal article  |  2016  |  J Proteomics

UNLABELLED: Sepiadarium austrinum, the southern bottletail squid, is a small squid that inhabits soft sediments along Australia's ..

Combined Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of the Posterior Salivary Gland from the Southern Blue-Ringed Octopus and the Southern Sand Octopus.

Brooke L Whitelaw, Jan M Strugnell, Pierre Faou, Rute R da Fonseca, Nathan E Hall, Mark Norman, Julian Finn, Ira R Cooke

Journal article  |  2016  |  J Proteome Res

This study provides comprehensive proteomic profiles from the venom producing posterior salivary glands of octopus (superorder Oct..

An updated checklist of the cephalopods of the South China Sea

MD Norman, J Nabhitabhata, CC Lu

Journal article  |  2016  |  Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

A new species of pouched octopus, Cistopus Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the southwest coast of India.

Vijayamma Sreeja, Mark D Norman, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar

Journal article  |  2015  |  Zootaxa

Octopuses of the genus Cistopus Gray, 1849 are commercially valuable catches in the cephalopod fisheries of India. The primary and..

Last male sperm precedence in a polygamous squid

Zoe E Squires, Bob BM Wong, Mark D Norman, Devi Stuart-Fox

Journal article  |  2015  |  BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Differential sperm usage from consecutive matings, or sperm precedence, is vital in determining male reproductive success and the ..