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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we are using polarised artemia cysts and getting 1.7 g Instar I for each 1 g cysts and sometimes we get less than that. we put them in 29C, 35ppt and lots of agitation any tips are...
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Please provide me with some recent proteomics analysis on stress tolerance and growth promoter proteins in crustacean or fish?
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This small crustaceaen appeared in a zooplankton sample from a small reservoir in Costa Rica. Unfortunately we were not able to find it again to take a better picture. We would appreciate any...
10 October 2016 7,034 9 View
Can anybody suggest from where will I get methyl farnesoate ,a crustacean hormone? My research work is on prawn
09 September 2016 4,909 3 View
Shrimp are found in association with many hosts (sponges, anthozoans, mollusks, echinoids, ascidians and fish). At present, few published records exist concerning association of crustaceans with...
01 September 2016 6,830 3 View
Dear friends I am trying to estimate ghost shrimp population densities on intertidal mudflats. Alas their burrows seem to stretch 40-100cm and can easily avoid all of the corers I am aware of. Is...
08 August 2016 9,919 4 View
can you tell me please, among these pictures (excuse me, the photographies are not very clear) if there is foraminifera or shellfish larvae?
08 August 2016 3,224 6 View
These crabs are juveniles (4th instar) that are being raised in their own containers with constant flow through sea water. Some of the crabs have the strange white lesions (pictured) on them but...
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Which all organisms can be chosen as best outgroups for Ryphilla crabs in the phylogenetic tree
31 July 2016 9,247 1 View
Does anyone know which hormones or chemicals can mimic the action of androgenic gland hormone or have similar structure?
24 July 2016 2,065 2 View
greeting dear colleagues, can someone propose an easy and applied method for production of chitosan from raw crustacean exoskeletons or even other sources ? or helpful materials for that ? Thanks
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sampling location Palkbay
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This copepod was collected in December in Buzzards Bay, MA, USA. There are three images attached. It is ~0.5 mm at widest girth and 1.7 mm in length (not counting antennae, which are longer than...
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I have some confusion with the differentiation of Leander paulensis and Leander tenuicornis, specifically with the character of the anterior margin of the basal antennular segment, being convex...
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Can anyone heip me identify the species of the ostracod from the picuures?
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I have tried to id it but became confused. The crab on the photo looks more like an immature Uca perplexa (as of unbarred leg and lemon yellow color, pattern of dorsal carapace) though having...
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Hi, Someone could help me in the identification of this hermit crab?. I found it in Ionian sea (Mediterranean Sea). It's particular due to the red spotted cornea. Thank you very much.
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This sample was collected from brackishwater system. Adult copepod with 10X magnification & Berried female with 4X magnification. Thanks
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