The genetic variation and population structure of narrow-clawed crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus) was examined by means of polymerase chain reaction (PC R) restriction fragment length polymorphism (RF LP) analysis of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) of mitochondrial DNA. A total of 194 adult specimens were collected from seven sample sites including, two in the south Caspian Sea and one ea...

-Spinianirella serrata is described from 350 m off Puerto Rico. This new species differs from S. walfishensis Menzies (from the south-eastern Atlantic) in the more spinose nature of the cephalic and pereonal processes, and in the pleonal and uropodal structure of the male. Menzies (1962) described the genus Spinianirella to accommodate a single female specimen taken in 1816 m in the Walvis Basi...

Larvae of the predatory crustacean Squilla empusa were collected from the plankton in Chesapeake Bay and reared in the laboratory topermit description of the pelagic stages before the postlarval stage. Characters such as rostral length and spinulation, carapace spinulation, relative size of telson, overall body size, and appearance probably are of more value for specific than for generic identi...

-Calaxius carneyi, new species (Axiidae), is described from two male specimens collected by manned submersibles working near hydrocarbon seeps in deep waters (544 m) on the continental slope off Louisiana, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Both specimens were taken adjacent to communities of clams that comprise a major constituent of chemosynthetic assemblages at the collection site. The new spec...

Metanephrops is an extant, clawed lobster genus (Family Nephropidae) with a very distinctive, carinate and spiny cephalothorax. It is the most speciose extant genus of clawed lobster, with 18 Recent species known. It is a deepwater genus with very large eyes; most species are known from deeper than 150 meters. Some species, nonetheless, are of commercial importance and marketed as “scampi”. Her...

—A new species of the squat lobster of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, M. formosa, is described from deep-water off the northeastern coast of Taiwan. The new species is most similar to M. camelus Ortmann, but differs in having a much broader and less curved rostrum, the posterior carapace ridge generally armed with a pair of submedian spines, only the chelipeds bearing epipods, and having a lig...

Full: HTML / PDF (333K) Select Citation Optimization of Simultaneous Flavanol, Phenolic Acid, and Anthocyanin Extraction from Grapes Using an Experimental Design: Application to the Characterization of Champagne Grape Varieties C. Mané, J. M. Souquet, D. Ollé, C. Verriés, F. Véran, G. Mazerolles, V. Cheynier, and H. Fulcrand pp 7224 7233; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/jf071301w Abstract Full: HTML / P...