Crustaceans

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• Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification

  
  Ocean acidification — Authority: 476
  Anthropogenic elevation of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( p CO 2 ) is making the oceans more acidic, thereby reducing their degree of saturation with respect to calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ). There is mounting concern over the impact that future CO 2 -induced reductions in the CaCO 3 saturation state of seawater will ...
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• Prepare for a Lobster-Full Future: Acidic Oceans Could Help Some Critters

  
  80beats — Authority: 626
  In a bit of unexpected climate related good news—not for us, of course—some shell-building ocean dwellers like blue crabs, shrimp, and lobsters may actually benefit from increased ocean acidification. This surprising finding seems to be good news for lobster lovers, but researchers note that the ongoing ...
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• Following the scientific method: an example

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 616
  Experiments in science that don’t reinforce scientists’ hypotheses can be vitally important in understanding complex systems. Serious scientists don’t fudge the results or hide the data. Here’s a recent example of a global warming study to show the effects of CO2-caused ocean acidification on the shells of ...
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• Will acid seas result in giant shellfish?

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 518
  As the worlds seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine animals may actually become bigger and stronger, suggests research by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . The finding could have important implications for ocean food webs and the multi-billion ...
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• Getting to be a ritual...

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Let’s hope over to the Brain, Behavior, and Evolution website to check out the Top 10 articles for the month. I’m kind of nervous, because I know my review article can’t stay on that top 10 indefinitely... Number 2 again! Hooray! That makes... six months in the top 3 now?
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• Shell shock: Is the new way to dispatch a lobster a better way?

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  When you’re a crustacean neurobiologist, cooking a lobster is a topic you’d better be familiar with, because you will be asked about it. (See posts in February 2005 ; May 2003 ; maybe this subject needs to get its own label.) The Daily Mail has an article on the latest effort to deal with concerns that ...
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• Tuesday Crustie: “I hate a Barnacle as no man has done before”

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Today is the 150 th anniversary of the publication of On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin. Although I’ve already featured a crustacean that Darwin collected, it seems appropriate to feature a couple more ...
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• Look Inside the Specimen Cabinet of a Charles Darwin Colleague

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 617
  Have you ever seen a Victorian naturalists collections cabinet? I have such a cabinet, purchased years ago, at my house. Using a kit, I also put together a more modern-day version way back in the 1970s. Maybe you have a ...
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• Sunday Night Movie: The Pistol Shrimp

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
  from the BBC’s Weird Nature
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• A Real Stunner: CrustaStun Device Kills Lobster and Crab More Humanely

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  While many people enjoy eating a nice lobster or crab dinner, the methods often used to kill the crustaceans are sometimes seen as barbaric and cruel.   It can take live lobsters up to three minutes to die when plunged into a pot of boiling hot water.   It takes even longer for the crab – up to five minutes ...
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• A Real Stunner: CrustaStun Device Kills Lobster and Crab More Humanely

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 542
  While many people enjoy eating a nice lobster or crab dinner, the methods often used to kill the crustaceans are sometimes seen as barbaric and cruel.   It can take live lobsters up to three minutes to die when plunged into a pot of boiling hot water.   It takes even longer for the crab – up to five minutes ...
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• Extinction through fornication

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Normally, we think of extinction happening because organisms fail to reproduce. In the case of Canadian sticklebacks, some incipient species are going extinct because they are reproducing all too well. Three-spined stickleback have many populations around the world. The main population lives in marine systems most ...
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• Tuesday Crustie: Termite of the sea

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
    This squat lobster, Munida andamanica , has been in the news recently for its peculiar ability to eat wood. Picture from here .
  2 weeks ago

• Tuesday Crustie: Strigose

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Strigose (from the New Latin strigosus , from striga row of bristles, from Latin, furrow): having appressed bristles or scales strigose leaf> And you needed to know that to fully appreciate the name for this squat lobster, Galathea strigosa . (It’s the one in front, not that chordate interloper in back.)
  3 weeks ago

• Three Swimming Adventures to Seek Out

  
  Bike Swim Run — Authority: 119
  Swimming with the fishes. Have you ever listened to a co-worker’s story about scuba diving off of the coast of Belize, or seen someone on TV swim with Dolphins, wishing your vacations could be so explorative and adventurous? If so, you might want to pay attention to this article, because we’ll be looking into ...
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• Tuesday Crustie: Hypertrophy

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Species unknown, but apparently some sort of Brachyura. From Attack of the Crab Monsters . Roger Corman, we love you!
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• Crawling back up

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  My review article has climbed back up a notch to #2 in Brain, Behavior and Evolution . That’s five months in top three, for those playing along at home. If you think this article is interesting, tell your friends. I’d be interested to see if the article can reclaim top spot.
  4 weeks ago

• Tuesday Crustie: Peek-a-boo!

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Hermit crab ( Pagurus bernhardus ). Photo by David Spreekmeester on Flickr , used under a Creative Commons license.
  5 weeks ago

• Mantis Shrimp Eyes Might Inspire New High-Def Devices

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 760
  In the marvelously sensitive eyes of mantis shrimps, scientists have found cells that could inspire an overhaul of humanity’s comparatively clumsy communications hardware. Mechanical analogs of their eyes “are among the most important and commonly used optical components, and the cellular structure we describe ...
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• The princess and the perfume, a hermit crab fairy tale

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 428
  Once upon a time, there lived a princess in a far away land. The princess was young and fair, and this drew the attention of a knight. Though the knight was strong, the princess loved him not. Enraged, the knight captured the princess and held her in his castle, and told her cruelly that they would soon be wed. ...
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