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Retraction: Tusk shells in trouble? Physiology and behavior in response to changing temperature in a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda: Dentaliida). Sigwart et al. (2016)
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
invertebrate biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.486
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1744-7410
pISSN - 1077-8306
DOI - 10.1111/ivb.12157
Subject(s) - confusion , biology , white (mutation) , population , zoology , demography , gonad , genealogy , history , psychoanalysis , psychology , anatomy , sociology , genetics , gene
The above article, published online on 3 June 2016 in Wiley Online Library, is retracted voluntarily by agreement among the authors, the Editor‐in‐Chief (Michael Hart), and the Editor (Amy Moran). The study focused on behavior and mass‐specific oxygen consumption rates in specimens of the northeastern Pacific scaphopod species Rhabdus rectius (Carpenter 1864) collected from a wild study population in September 2013. The authors used a method that we assumed to be reliable, based on the literature for similar scaphopod species, to distinguish males from females by gonad color (white or slightly pink ovaries; yellow testes) visible through the thin shell. After the article was published, the corresponding author notified the editors of new observations by the authors indicating that our published identifications of sex were in error. Histological sections of gonads from a small number of individuals of R. rectius , sampled from the same wild study population, revealed that, contrary to expectations, yellow individuals were female, and white individuals were male. These results contradict the identifications of sex made in the published article. Uncertainty in the sex identifications affects some quantitative analyses in the published article that were based in part on sex differences. The article has been retracted only for that reason. The other data reported in the published article (burying times; body masses; individual oxygen consumption rates) are not directly affected by the error in sex identification. The authors apologize for any confusion caused. We are grateful to the editors, Amy Moran and Michael Hart, for their helpful support in resolving this matter and correcting the scientific record. Reference Sigwart JD, Carey N, & Sumner‐Rooney LH 2016. Tusk shells in trouble? Physiology and behavior in response to changing temperature in a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda: Dentaliida). Invertebr. Biol. 135: 191–199 doi: 10.1111/ivb.12127 .