A recent study by the Aquaculture Research Group at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in collaboration with Genoa Aquarium has revealed that copepods of the species Acartia tonsa, enriched ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study of the Manantali dam reservoir is to investigate the biological quality of the water through inventories and analysis of the ichthyofauna and planktonic communities ...

Copepods are among the most abundant organisms on the planet and play critical functions in aquatic ecosystems. Among copepods, populations of the Eurytemora affinis species complex are numerically ...

Edited by Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved December 12, 2012 (received for review September 23, 2012) Known circoviruses have a stem-loop that acts ...

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This baseline study on microplastics (MPs) in calanoid copepods in the Kochi backwaters (KBW), India's largest estuary system on the west coast, focuses on (a) the spatiotemporal variations of MPs ...

“A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision” – Eric Ries. Marissa Cubbage came to Purdue to study the young life stages of fish in the Great Lakes. After arriving in West Lafayette in ...

Copepods are key species in pelagic marine environments. They act as a link between primary producers and fish and also as predators of other major consumers (Gismervik, 2006). These organisms are the ...

Central to life-history theory is how individuals allocate energeticresources to meet the “cost of reproduction” (Stearns, 1992, 2000). Organisms allocate energy resources competitively and this ...

When it comes to their concentration of omega-3 fatty acids, one of the sea’s smallest creatures may pack an outsized nutritional punch. Scientists have just confirmed a surprising characteristic of ...