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Two weeks ago I found a peculiar crab in the intertidal zone in SW Florida. when found, the crab was not utilizing a shell. It was similar shaped to porcelain crabs found in our area, but with...
18 January 2021 1,845 4 View
We found this small, maybe parasitic, crustacean in the North Sea offshore. The posterior body part is missing, but it looks quite characteristic. There is double-hooked rostrum, 2 antennae...
09 April 2020 7,034 9 View
Can anyone identify this species? It's from a temperate lagoon located in the southern part of the Po River delta (Italy). Many thanks, Monia
04 March 2020 10,174 5 View
Hello, I am a PhD student interested in population genetics of marine invertebrates. Currently I'm working with a bryozoan: Reteporella. I have been trying to amplify COI (at least) and, although...
14 November 2019 7,546 4 View
For a long time we are looking for the fossil cladocerans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera). Many papers were published previously by my team. But now we are looking for the next fossils, i.e....
11 November 2019 3,851 2 View
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I need to differentiate living veligers from dead. Is there some staining or another method? Thank you for your help in advance MAria
17 October 2019 6,236 7 View
In looking for a different treatment for small crustaceans that parasites sharks and rays
10 October 2019 3,073 1 View
02 October 2019 8,916 1 View
Im currently working on gut content analysis of some juveniles from seagrass bed in Seribu Archipelago, Indonesia. I found some difficulties as most diets were found in not complete part and...
18 June 2019 928 11 View
A number of research have talked about parasitic crustaceans as bioindicators of pollution, however, there has not been mention of the use of these organisms in cleaning up the metals and/or...
05 May 2019 6,174 1 View
I would like to know which DNA extraction kit would work best for extracting bacterial DNA from animal tissue, specifically the pleopods of a crustacean. Some people have mentioned the DNeasy...
05 May 2019 3,580 6 View
Hi. I would like to ask you. We typically fix fish tissue with 4% PFA and 30% sugar for FISH or IHC. Recently, however, the failure of frozen section for FISH or IHC using shrimp, a crustacean,...
16 April 2019 8,733 1 View
these crustacean found in a gut content of Ostorinchus margaritophorus (Apogonidae)
26 March 2019 7,616 22 View
Currently working on marine macro-invertebrates (especially molluscs, echinoderms and crustaceans) from gleaners' catch for my thesis and need help in taxonomic identification and confirmation....
02 February 2019 5,443 3 View
I'm trying to find out when decapod crustaceans (snapping shrimp in particular) typically molt. I'm wondering if they tend to molt depending on lunar patterns. Based on a quick literature search,...
01 January 2019 4,858 0 View
My scientific advisor (Burukovsky R.N.) is a famous shrimp researcher and carcinologist. He analyzes food from stomachs of many crustaceans. So... it is an obvious situation when he found an...
12 December 2018 7,950 3 View
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Crustaceans blood colour.
11 November 2018 4,096 3 View
I'm trying to extract the RNA from the shrimp optical ganglion.
19 October 2018 3,111 1 View
These ostracods were found in the surface sediments of a Vietnam lagoon. Thank you very much for your help.
10 October 2018 7,492 7 View
Hi! I am preparing ostracods for identification and I need to open the valves. Is there a best way of doing it?
10 October 2018 9,571 6 View
Hi, I am working on the screening of Crustacean Viruses. Meanwhile, when I screened my samples for IHHNV (amplicon size 309bp) my positive control is not working. I am getting multiple bands just...
09 September 2018 5,382 2 View
What is the species that is moving around the echinoderms larvae?
09 August 2018 2,608 4 View