Every year, over 8 million tons of crustacean shells are discarded. However, there exists an opportunity for valorizing the chitin and calcium carbonate part composition shells. Our study revealed reduces self-aggregation effects. It was shown that crustacean-based nanofibers alone or added to cellulose offer unprecedented reductions in viscosity even after drying produce foams impossible cellu...

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...

The effects of cypermethrin, a commonly used pyrethroid insecticide, were studied in small in situ enclosures situated in an eutrophic lake over an 11-day period. The experimental design used a regression principle that included three untreated controls and a gradient of six unreplicated cypermethrin concentrations, ranging from 0.01 to 6 microg/l. This paper is the second in a series of two an...

Additional References to be included. Cohen, R.G., (2010) Primer registro del anostraco de altura Branchinecta papillata (Crustacea Branchiopoda: Anostraca) para Argentina, y actualización de la biodiversidad de anostracos en el país. Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 54, 36–43. Cohen, R.G., (2012) Morphological diversity displayed by high altitude Branchinecta papillata (Anostraca) and additional morph...

This is an Open distribution, Abstract – Interactions within the food chain are essential to ecosystem ecology. At the same time, very little is known of the trophic relationships between Heteroptera and zooplankton. The aim of this study was to examine the community structure of water bugs in the littoral zone of shallow lakes and their impact on crustacean zooplankton communities. A study on ...

The labeling of foods containing material derived from crustaceans such as shrimp and crab is to become mandatory in Japan because of increases in the number of allergy patients. To ensure proper labeling, 2 novel sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits for the determination of crustacean protein in processed foods, the N kit (Nissui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Ibaraki, Japan) and ...

The crustacean exoskeleton presents several functions including the stabilization of the whole body of the animal, resistance to mechanical loads, and protection to the environment and against predators [1]. The structure of crustacean exoskeleton consists of an organic matrix constituted by α-chitin, proteins and carotenoid pigments and an inorganic fraction where calcium carbonate is the main...

Crustaceans is one of the most common causes of food allergies. Its persistency is life-threatening therefore, method to detect the presence of crustacean constituent in food products would be indispensable to ensure the safety. We have developed a simple and rapid method to detect the presence of crustacean residues in food products through the allergenic Pen gene. Detection method was based o...