abstract this investigation was conducted to replace artificial food with gammarus and study this effect on survival and growth parameters of jewel in case of completely randomized design with 3 treatments and 3 replicates in each treatments. 270 jewel fishes with initial mean weight of 1.22±0.72 were reared in 9 aquariums (30 fishes in each aquarium) with volume of 100 liter water. experimenta...

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were produced for normalized cDNA libraries prepared from several tissues of 2 marine crustaceans, the green shore crab Carcinus maenas and the American lobster Homarus americanus. Tissues represented in the Carcinus library were anterior and posterior gills, hypodermis, heart, hepatopancreas, antennal gland, brain, testis, and skeletal muscle, obtained from anima...

In the stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) of the lobster Homarus gammarus, the rhythmic discharge of a pair of identified modulatory neurons (PS cells) is able to construct de novo a functional network from neurons otherwise belonging to other functional networks. The PS interneurons are electrically coupled and possess endogenous oscillatory properties that can be activated synaptically by s...

Investigations of opsin evolution outside of vertebrate systems have long been focused on insect visual pigments, whereas other groups have received little attention. Furthermore, few studies have explicitly investigated the selective influences across all the currently characterized arthropod opsins. In this study, we contribute to the knowledge of crustacean opsins by sequencing 1 opsin gene ...

A pair of identified neuromodulatory neurons, the pyloric suppressor (PS) neurons, can individually and strongly modify the activity of the pyloric network in the stomatogastric nervous system of the lobster Homarus gammarus. The PS neurons are identified by the location of their somata in the inferior ventricular nerve, their axonal projections, and their effects on pyloric network activity in...

Panulirus homarus is an economically important spiny lobster that is widespread through the Indo-West Pacific Region, but has an uncertain taxonomic status, with three or four geographic subspecies having been described. This study used mitochondrial (16S, COI and control region) and nuclear (18S, ITS-1) DNA sequences to examine specimens of all putative subspecies and forms from throughout the...

Citation: Arnal A, Droit A, Elguero E, Ducasse H, Sánchez MI, Lefevre T, Misse D, Bédèrina M, Vittecoq M, Daoust S and Thomas F (2015) Activity level and aggregation behavior in the crustacean gammarid Gammarus insensibilis parasitized by the manipulative trematode Microphallus papillorobustus. Front. Ecol. Evol. 3:109. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00109 Activity level and aggregation behavior in the...