Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters,... | Contact experts in Crustacea to get answers
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What is the species that is moving around the echinoderms larvae?
08 August 2018 6,381 5 View
At low salinity (below 4 ppt), the proportion of major minerals (Cl, Na, SO4, Mg, Ca, K) is important as well as the absolute concentration for the growth and survival of marine shrimps. Does...
07 July 2018 5,659 4 View
Does anyone use DPX to prepare permanent slides of arthropods, for taxonomy or any similar use? What protocol? Any suggestion for small crustaceans?
05 May 2018 8,319 0 View
Dear all, I have gathered samples of Dreissenid mussels at different locations in a lake. After counting and measuring the mussels, histograms featuring the number of individuals per shell length...
16 April 2018 4,360 4 View
I want to extract chitosan from crustaceans such as shrimps and lobsters. How would this be possible in the simplest way?
08 April 2018 6,667 2 View
The aims is for detect the hormone profiles in crustacean's hemolymph. Therefore, before proceed with the GC-MS procedures, the hemolymph need to be dissolve with derivatives. Does anyone can help...
04 April 2018 718 3 View
Can anyone suggest any journal about the LC50 (safe level) of SO42- to marine crustacea especially penaeid shrimp?
04 April 2018 9,509 0 View
I have seen ectocommensal triclads and their egg cases in Antarctic isopods (undescribed to the best of my knowledge), Bdelloura species in horseshoe crabs.. I wonder if there are potentially...
03 March 2018 503 2 View
is anybody familiar with species identification of Euphausiidae shrimps, also known as krill? A co-worker (W. Langbroek) collected a specimen in a shallow marine bay along our Dutch coast at...
03 March 2018 9,171 6 View
Hi Everybody, I need ideas on methods which could be used to mark small shrimp (approximately 3 cm total length) for the purposes of identification of individuals in a lab-based study. It doesn't...
19 January 2018 4,347 3 View
In fact, I'm looking for a way to maintain a good survival an growth of these shrimps, especially at early life stages (I've heard about some ion deficiencies in marine sea salt which lead to a...
17 January 2018 7,982 4 View
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Dear researchers, I am currently working on a project aiming to assessed the extinction risk in crustacean species in Brazil. Best regards, Harry
01 January 2018 4,017 1 View
I have a manuscript which is going to be accepted by a journal. The journal is saying English expression still needs significant revision. Is there any English native speaker to assist me with...
01 January 2018 5,064 1 View
In decapod crustaceans, spermatophores studied to date have been categorized into three different types. One type of spermatophore is pedunculate and is present in all anomurans except for a few...
12 December 2017 8,488 1 View
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I'm finishing an article of my research, which consists in managing some crustacean species names, but some of them went through taxonomic changes, specially genus level changes. One example is...
11 November 2017 3,541 8 View
It is difficult to determine age of crustaceans since they have no fixed structure throughout their life. however, future or present investigations may solve this issue.
11 November 2017 6,065 0 View
I'm searching for some resource (book or paper or database) with more or less complete list of common marine zooplankton species (e.g. crustaceans) with body lengths or better body masses. There...
11 November 2017 4,604 10 View
Just wondering whether the ecdysteroid receptor (EcR) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are the same in arthropods/crustaceans, as I cant find information on PPARs in...
10 October 2017 1,631 0 View
Dose anybody have some photos from below crab species? I could not find. Potamon gedrosianum Potamon magnum Potamon mesopotamicum Potamon ruttneri Potamon strouhali Potamon...
20 September 2017 3,802 2 View
This relationship is very obvious to me (think of lobsters), but hard to actually measure. I could not find any study which addresses this issue!
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