Coastal habitats that serve as nursery grounds for numerous marine species are badly degraded, yet the traditional means of modeling populations of exploited marine species handle spatiotemporal changes in habitat characteristics and life history dynamics poorly, if at all. To explore how nursery habitat degradation impacts recruitment of a mobile, benthic species, we developed a spatially expl...

28 Introduction In 1999, the Bahamian government announced a plan to protect 20% of the Bahamian marine environment as no-take marine reserves.1 Nursery habitats for two species of ecological and economic value, the Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus, and spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, will represent a significant component of the future marine protected areas. Both the Nassau grouper and sp...

The transient potassium (K+) current, or A-current (IA), plays an essential role in shaping the firing properties of identified neurons in the 14-cell pyloric network in the stomatogastric ganglion of the spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus. The different cells in the pyloric network have distinct IAs. To begin to understand the molecular basis for IA heterogeneity, we examined the relationshi...

Lobsters (Homarus americanus) in the wild inhabit ocean waters where temperature can vary over a broad range (0-25 degrees C). To examine how environmental thermal variability might affect lobster physiology, we examine the effects of temperature and thermal change on the acid-base status of the lobster hemolymph. Total CO(2), pH, P(CO)2 and HCO(-)(3) were measured in hemolymph sampled from lob...

Allergy to only 1 kind of seafood is uncommon. We report a case of selective allergy to lobster. We studied a 30-year-old man who suffered generalized urticaria, facial erythema, and pharyngeal pruritus after eating lobster. He had a more than 10-year history of mild persistent asthma and sensitization to house dust mites. The study was performed by skin prick test, and prick-prick test, oral f...

Citation: Whomersley P, Van der Molen J, Holt D, Trundle C, Clark S and Fletcher D (2018) Modeling the Dispersal of Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas) Larvae: Implications for Future Fisheries Management and Conservation Measures. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:58. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00058 Modeling the Dispersal of Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas) Larvae: Implications for Future Fisheries Management a...

Understanding recruitment and identifying factors critical to that process are imperative if adult spiny lobster Panulirus argus stocks are to be conserved and properly managed. The goal of our research has been to obtain ecological infonnation linking inshore postlarval spiny lobster recruiunent to later life stages, lhereby providing the basic framework for assessing and predicting adult stoc...

Peptides are the largest and most diverse class of molecules used for neurochemical communication, playing key roles in the control of essentially all aspects of physiology and behavior. The American lobster, Homarus americanus, is a crustacean of commercial and biomedical importance; lobster growth and reproduction are under neuropeptidergic control, and portions of the lobster nervous system ...

Sustainability is one of the essential issues in utilizing lobster coastal waters Ayah, Kebumen Regency. Its management requires information on growth parameters and utilization status lobster. This study examines ornate spiny (Panulirus ornatus) Ayah’s water. The was conducted from November 2020 to January 2021. Lobster were analyzed by distribution frequency carapace length using ELEFAN I met...

Alpha-amylases are ubiquitously distributed throughout microbials, plants and animals. It is widely accepted that omnivorous crustaceans have higher α-amylase activity and number of isoforms than carnivorous, but contradictory results have been obtained in some species, and carnivorous crustaceans have been less studied. In addition, the physiological meaning of α-amylase polymorphism in crusta...