Aquaculture is a growing global food production sector that aims to meet the increasing demand for dietary protein. Crustaceans are an important and predominantly high-priced aquaculture segment could support transfer of sustainable new technologies other sectors. Areas interest include disease management compound feeds, both which have potential improve profitability sustainability aquaculture...

Unravelling the evolutionary history of taxa requires solid delimitation traits characterising these. This can be challenging especially in groups with a highly complex taxonomy. The squat lobster family Munididae contains more than 450 species distributed among 21 genera, Munida being most speciose (~300 species). Previous phylogenetic studies, based on small part diversity group, have suggest...

The cladoceran crustacean Daphnia pulex has served as a standard organism for aquatic toxicity testing for decades. The model organism status of D. pulex rests largely on its remarkable ability to rapidly adapt morphologically, physiologically and behaviorally to a wide range of environmental challenges, as well as on its parthenogenetic reproduction and ease of laboratory culture. As in all mu...