Retraction: Tusk shells in trouble? Physiology and behavior in response to changing temperature in a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda: Dentaliida). Sigwart et al. (2016)

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Invertebrate BiologyVolume 136, Issue 1 p. 113-113 RetractionFree Access Retraction: Tusk shells in trouble? Physiology and behavior in response to changing temperature in a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda: Dentaliida). Sigwart et al. (2016) This article retracts the following: Retracted: Tusk shells in trouble? Physiology and behavior in response to changing temperature in a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda: Dentaliida) Julia D. Sigwart, Nicholas Carey, Lauren H. Sumner-Rooney, Volume 135Issue 3Invertebrate Biology pages: 191-199 First Published online: June 3, 2016 First published: 12 December 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12157AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract 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. Volume136, Issue1March 2017Pages 113-113 RelatedInformation