Insight Into the Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of the Caribbean King Crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Mithracidae) to Support Fisheries Management and Conservation Initiatives [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe Caribbean King crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus is the largest brachyuran in the western Atlantic and target of subsistence, recreational, and/or artisanal fisheries.
Juan Antonio Baeza
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Spider crabs of the Western Atlantic with special reference to fossil and some modern Mithracidae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Spider crabs (Majoidea) are well-known from modern oceans and are also common in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. When spider crabs appeared in the Western Atlantic in deep time, and when they became diverse, hinges on their fossil record.
Adiël A. Klompmaker +4 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Scyra compressipes Stimpson, 1857 (Decapoda: Epialtidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 The family Epialtidae is the most diversified family within superfamily Majoidea but there is no report for complete mitogenome of any species in this family. This study was performed to sequence a complete mitogenome of Scyra compressipes Stimpson, 1857,
Hyung-Eun An +2 more
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Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation. [PDF]
J Anim EcolMetabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
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The faunal drugstore: animal-based remedies used in traditional medicines in Latin America. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2011 Zootherapy is the treatment of human ailments with remedies made from animals and their products. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on this phenomenon has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant ...
Alves RR, Alves HN.
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Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Salinas-de-León, P., Martí-Puig, P., Buglass, S., Arnés-Urgellés, C., Rastoin-Laplane, E., Creemers, M.
Salinas-de-León P +18 more
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SEM studies on first and second gonopod morphology in Mithracidae (Decapoda: Brachyura)
Nauplius, 2021 Gonopods are phylogenetically important morphological characters, and in several cases providing diagnostic characters to support taxonomic and phylogenetic studies.
Laira Lianos +4 more
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Molecular phylogeny of Thoe Bell, 1836 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea)
Nauplius, 2022 Thoe Bell, 1836 is amphi-American in distribution and includes small spider crabs with cryptic habits and rare records in the literature and carcinological collections.
Jessica Colavite +6 more
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Uniciencia, 2022 El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la distribución, riqueza e identificación molecular de cangrejos araña en las costas Pacífico y Caribe costarricenses.
Carolina Sancho-Blanco +5 more
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Crustáceos decápodos asociados a ensamblajes macroalgales en el litoral rocoso de Córdoba, Caribe colombiano [PDF]
, 2012 Objetivo. Determinar la estructura de las poblaciones de crustáceos decápodos asociados a ensamblajes algales en el litoral rocoso del departamento de Córdoba. Materiales y métodos.
Jorge Quirós R. +2 more
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