American lobster
Kinematics, hydrodynamics and force production of pleopods suggest jet assisted walking in the American lobster (Homarus americanus)
... The American lobster’s pleopod forces are comparable to the thrust generated by some well-known proficient swimmers such as bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) and surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni) swimming at ...
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Evidence that potential fish predators elicit the production of carapace vibrations by the American lobster
... The American lobster (Homarus americanus) occasionally produces carapace vibrations that can travel through the water as a sound wave (Fish, 1966; Henninger and Watson, ...the American lobster ...
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Mechanisms underlying the production of carapace vibrations and associated waterborne sounds in the American lobster, Homarus americanus
... the American lobster, the differences seen in the data probably represent different levels of excitation and fatigue, not anatomical differences in the muscle-driven mechanisms, as all lobsters produced ...
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Adenosine increases ventilation rate, cardiac performance and haemolymph velocity in the American lobster Homarus americanus
... Kuramoto, 1998). Several of these compounds have been identified in the pericardial organs of decapods, from where they can be released into the haemolymph and transported to their site of action (Alexandrowicz, 1953). ...
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Evidence that potential fish predators elicit the production of carapace vibrations by the American lobster
... The American lobster (Homarus americanus) occasionally produces carapace vibrations that can travel through the water as a sound wave (Fish, 1966; Henninger and Watson, ...the American lobster ...
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Electromyographic analysis of goal directed grasping behavior in the American lobster
... The American lobster Homarus americanus exhibits grasping behavior with its crusher claw as feeding behavior that can be initiated after appropriate operant ...of lobster is characterized, at least ...
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Identification of a calcitonin like diuretic hormone that functions as an intrinsic modulator of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, cardiac neuromuscular system
... the American lobster, Homarus americanus , serving, at least in part, as a powerful modulator of cardiac ...the lobster nervous system, including the cardiac ganglion (CG), which controls the ...
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Behavioral thermoregulation in the American lobster Homarus americanus
... of lobster behavioral thermoregulation (Reynolds and Casterlin, 1979a), data were collected for up to 2 days and, thus, the preferred temperatures exhibited should represent the final thermal preferenda of the ...
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Mechanisms underlying the production of carapace vibrations and associated waterborne sounds in the American lobster, Homarus americanus
... the American lobster: Fish (1966) recorded waterborne sounds from six animals and felt body vibrations in 25 (of 100) lobsters, and Mendelson (1969) successfully recorded remotor muscle activity in lobsters ...
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In vivo muscle protein synthesis rates in the American lobster Homarus americanus during the moult cycle and in response to 20 hydroxyecdysone
... In lobster muscle, 20-HE may act at the level of protein synthesis by increasing ribosomal processing of mRNA pools or directly on gene transcription through a steroid response ...
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Transepithelial d glucose and d fructose transport across the American lobster, Homarus americanus, intestine
... Whole lobster intestines were isolated and dissected into small pieces in ...the lobster tissues were cut into ribbons of 7mm thickness using a microtome and placed into a water bath at ...
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Modulatory effects of adenosine and adenine nucleotides on different heart preparations of the American lobster, Homarus americanus
... In these in vivo preparations adenosine, AMP, ADP and ATP solutions dissolved in lobster saline, pH·8.0 (Zeis et al., 1992) were administered for 10·min into the infrabranchial sinus at the base of the fourth ...
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Low-salinity stress in the American lobster,Homarus americanus, after chronic sublethal exposure to cadmium: Biochemical effects
... Cadmium exposure alone (ambient salinity) induced a general elevation of enzyme activity (heart, antennal gland, and muscle MDH; heart LDH and GPI), despite the probability [r] ...
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Temperature and acid–base balance in the American lobster Homarus americanus
... the lobster heartbeat ...of lobster cardiac performance have demonstrated that temperature change directly modulates the heartbeat strength, frequency and kinetics of isolated hearts bathed in saline (at pH ...
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Fiber polymorphism in skeletal muscles of the American lobster, Homarus americanus: continuum between slow twitch (S1) and slow tonic (S2) fibers
... Recent advances in the methodology used to identify different skeletal muscle fiber types have led to greater resolution of muscle phenotype in terms of the MHC isoforms present and copies of different mRNAs in ...
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Cloning of a muscle specific calpain from the American lobster Homarus americanus: expression associated with muscle atrophy and restoration during moulting
... conserved amino acid sequences in the calpain proteinase domain yielded five partial cDNAs comprising three distinct sequences, all of which revealed high identities with members of the calpain gene family (data not ...
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The Mechanism of Fluid Absorption at Ecdysis in the American Lobster Homarus Americanus
... X-radiography of lobsters that ingested a suspension of barium sulphate during ecdysis demonstrated that accumulation and concentration of this compound occurred within the midgut during[r] ...
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The olfactory pathway for individual recognition in the American lobster Homarus americanus
... winning lobster, as appears to be the case in some species of crayfish (Breithaupt and Eger, 2002; Copp, 1986; Gherardi and Daniels, 2003; Zulandt Schneider et ...
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Jackson Estuarine Laboratory Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) 2-7-2014 A Noninvasive Method For In situ Determination of Mating Success in Female American Lobsters (Homarus americanus)
... Despite being one of the most productive fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic, much remains unknown about the natural reproductive dynamics of American lobsters. Recent work in exploited crustacean populations ...
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Mechanical Behavior of Helicoidal and Pseudo Orthogonal Fiber Structures
... (American lobster), Callinectes sapidus (Atlantic blue crab) and Popillia japonica (Japanese beetle)[[4],[6]] ; (2) calculate the flexural and shear modulus of the bio-inspired laminates and baseline ...
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