Calanoid copepods are key players in the study of biological oceanography. They are the largest constituent of zooplankton biomass in the oceans, ...

Physicists show that despite their limited swimming abilities, zooplankton called calanoid copepods display active, energetic behaviour in turbulent flows Date: November 11, 2015 ...

Bits and pieces of organic matter float behind a calanoid copepod. In the open ocean, everything—be it a tiny copepod or a colossal whale—will eventually break down into fragments like these.

'Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region' marks the first time peer-reviewed taxonomic information on zooplankton for the northwestern Indian Ocean has been collected in one place and in ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 6 (2013), pp. 2145-2157 (13 pages) In most aquatic ecosystems, copepod nauplii outnumber all other mesozooplankton. Although thousands of studies have examined ...

"However, calanoid copepods may be the dominant algal grazers during parts of the summer, but they have been largely overlooked due to the challenges of culturing them in the laboratory.

To test the hypothesis that the sex ratio of the copepod Acartia tonsa is biased at birth, adult sex ratios of the offspring of families (21 families in 2011 and 72 in 2013) produced by field-caught ...

Angel Fitor Clockwise from bottom right: a calanoid copepod, a hyperiid amphipod, a decapod larva and a pteropod, with jaws at its base and an anus at its pointy top.

More information: Vittoria Roncalli et al, Transcriptomic responses of the calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus to the saxitoxin producing dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense, Scientific Reports ...