Tiny marine organism stressed by warmer Arctic waters

Some of the smallest marine species are actually the most important because all other life depends on them. Phytoplankton are probably the most important, but just above them in the food chain are ...

Tiny copepod reveals that gene location influences natural selection

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...
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Multigenerational exposure reveals differential effects of ocean warming temporal scenarios on mercury toxicity in a marine copepod

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DNA methylation plasticity drives copepod resilience to coastal high pCO2 and cadmium pollution under multigenerational exposure

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Postnaupliar development of a looking-glass copepod, Pleuromamma xiphias (Giesbrecht, 1889), with analyses of distributions of sex and asymmetry / Frank D. Ferrari

The calanoid copepod Pleuromamma xiphias was studied from samples collected in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean from the upper 1200 m at 17°50'N, 25°30'W over a six-day period. Only stages II to VI ...