(1) Better reproduction can be obtained by culturing the amphipods in some sediments, but this makes weekly enumeration difficult.
(2) An investigation into vitamin D-like molecules has been performed on whole extracts of the terrestrial amphipod Orchestia cavimana, using a sensitive nonequilibrium assay employing 1,25-(OH)2 D receptor from calf thymus.
(3) Infected amphipods were all females, and their total length was greater than that of uninfected females.
(4) Amphipods were collected monthly from April 1982 to March 1983 from a study site at the West Fork of Drake's Creek, Simpson Co., Kentucky.
(5) Amphipods in length classes 3 through 15 were infected with P. bulbocolli.
(6) Non-target amphipod, anostracan, cladoceran and insect populations were usually reduced 80-100% while copepods, ostracods and hydracarinid mites were generally less affected.
(7) The widest difference between two organisms occurred in the case of the Amphipod, Gammarus pulex (LC90-95, greater than 1 ppm) which was found to be about 5000 x more tolerant to temephos than are nymphs of the mayfly, Baetis rhodani.
(8) The diploid number of Phronima sedentaria and P. atlantica is 30, all the chromosomes are metacentric or submetacentric; the caryotypes of these two species are compared with those of other Amphipods.
(9) The whale stomach contained almost exclusively the amphipod Parathemisto gaudichaudi.
(10) Amphipods fed in containers of algae over which eggs with exposed fibrillar bands had been added developed a significantly greater prevalence and intensity of acanthocephalan infection than did those fed in containers to which eggs had been added before the algae.
(11) The number of infected amphipods per m2 was lowest (0.6) in May and highest (27.3) in November.
(12) SfG of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex was found to be a sensitive indicator of stress under laboratory conditions and here we describe the field deployment of this technique and present data from three field trials.
(13) No significant differences in OC levels were measured in benthic amphipods collected at different times.
(14) A total of 2,502 amphipods was examined; 1,575 (62.9%) were infected with P. bulbocolli.
(15) In the upper Tuloma River [correction of Verkhnetulomsk] water reservoir, due to the dropping out of the amphipod group of benthos from the biocoenosis of the water body, there has been formed a close ecological connection between copepods, C. lavaretus and E. lucius that resulted in the increase of T. crassus and gave rise to Triaenophorus infection of C. lavaretus here.
(16) Its forms range from sex determination by egg incubation temperature in reptiles to sex determination of photoperiod in amphipods.
(17) Metabolites of trans-chlordane were also measured in plankton and benthic amphipods.
(18) The aim of this study is to compare the heart ultrastructure of some large amphipids from Lake Baikal(Acanthogammarus albus, Parapallasea puzylli and Poekilogammarus sukaczewi) with smaller amphipods from Europe and Northern America.
(19) or the under-ice gammaridean amphipod (Gammarus wilkitzkii).
(20) The amphipod Pontoporeia femorata (Kröyer) contains approximately equal amounts of odd chain length and even chain length fatty acids.
Crustacean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
(n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is assumed that taurine increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of the force-generating myofilaments in mammalian hearts and crustacean slow skeletal muscle fibres.
(2) The implications of these findings for the development and physiological performance of the crustacean motor unit are discussed.
(3) The four hosts (Mollusc -- Crustacean -- Odonat -- Amphibian) are obligatory in the life cycle for it is impossible to infect the Insects directly with the cecariae or the frog (tadpoles as well as adults) with the mesocercariae.
(4) Using a spectrophotometric method, the kinetics of the crustacean muscle enzyme was compared to the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) on mammalian red blood cells and in the lobster ventral nerve cord.
(5) In crustacean nerve 12-14% of the phospholipids was in the form of alkyl ether phospholipids, which in the lobster were approximately half choline-containing and half ethanolamine-containing.
(6) Clearance of foreign materials from the hemocoel of decapod crustaceans involves several distinct kinds of cells.
(7) Electron microscopy has revealed that chitin from a representative selection of insect orders (plus one crustacean and one arachnid) is localized in crystallites about 2.8 nm across.
(8) The crustacean Na+-H+ antiporter therefore bears similarities to the vertebrate antiporter but is uniquely electrogenic.
(9) The highest levels were found in hepatopancreas from crustaceans.
(10) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(11) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
(12) You’d be hard pushed to find half a dozen fresh oysters at this great price.” Frozen food giant Iceland sparked lobster wars last month with what it claimed was the cheapest cooked crustacean in Britain.
(13) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
(14) In the walking legs of decapod crustaceans, intersegmental reflex actions originate from various joint proprioceptors.
(15) Ovaries from the spider crab, Libinia emarginata L. were studied to learn more of vitellogenesis in crustaceans.
(16) However, some responses were inhibitory, the first such demonstration in aquatic crustaceans.
(17) These include insects, chelicerates, most crustaceans, annelids, priapulids, nematodes, and some sipunculids.
(18) The pentapeptide proctolin modulates the activity of the rhythmic pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system.
(19) Tilapia is an aquaponics staple, but crustaceans are also up for discussion.
(20) Ross said researchers have identified four new species of fish, a new type of starfish and several new species of crustaceans living in the deepwater reefs.