Resolving Acuticulata (Metridioidea: Enthemonae: Actiniaria), a clade containing many invasive species of sea anemones

Isabel A. M. Pen; Charlotte Benedict; Michael B. Broe; Alonso Delgado; Heather Glon; Mengjin Zhang; Marymegan Daly

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0328544

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Resolving Acuticulata (Metridioidea: Enthemonae: Actiniaria), a clade containing many invasive species of sea anemones

Isabel A. M. Pen ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: pen.3@osu.edu

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-8156

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Charlotte Benedict,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Michael B. Broe,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Alonso Delgado,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Heather Glon,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Bureau of Marine Science, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4152-6706

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Mengjin Zhang,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China
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Marymegan Daly

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Resolving Acuticulata (Metridioidea: Enthemonae: Actiniaria), a clade containing many invasive species of sea anemones

Isabel A. M. Pen,
Charlotte Benedict,
Michael B. Broe,
Alonso Delgado,
Heather Glon,
Mengjin Zhang,
Marymegan Daly

Published: August 14, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328544

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