The copepod, Calanus finmarchicus, is a small crustacean that lives in the North Atlantic, where it is an important food source for whales, birds and fish alike. In the summer, when food is ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

Among the most abundant residents of this zone are copepods – tiny relatives of crabs and shrimp. And some of them have the ability to leave this world altogether, and take to the air.

Consider copepods, distant relatives of shrimp that fuel the ocean’s food web. Tiny and packed with fat, they are the baby food of the sea, feeding countless larval crabs, fish, and squid.

Remotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body. When you purchase through links on our ...

The copepod reacts by rapidly rejecting the flashing cell, seemingly unharmed. They note that observational data from the west coast of Sweden support their study's prediction that the presence of ...

A significant fraction of their biomass sinks out ungrazed, because the populations of their main grazers—calanoid copepods—generally peak well after the bloom, under much lower food ...

hyperboreus, and the lowest pH recorded was 5.40. The gut pH of a starved copepod decreased by 0.53 after the copepod resumed feeding for a few hours, indicating the secretion of acidic digestive ...