Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus)
SHORT COMMUNICATION INTRACELLULAR BUFFERING BY DIPEPTIDES AT HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURE IN THE BLUE CRAB CALLINECTES SAPIDUS
... Free amino acid and inorganic ion regulation in the whole muscle and hemolymph of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun in relation to the molting cycle.. Quantitation of Dns-amino a[r] ...
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Isolation and characterization of Astaxanthin from Portunus sanguinolentus (Three spotted crab), Callinectes sapidus (Blue crab) and Paralithodes brevipes (Spiny king crab)
... Spotted Crab), Callinectes sapidus (Blue Crab) and Paralithodes brevipes (Spiny King Crab) using the three different types of solvent mixture such as Hexane: Isopropanol, DMSO: ...
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Energy metabolism and metabolic depression during exercise in Callinectes sapidus, the Atlantic blue crab: effects of the bacterial pathogen Vibrio campbellii
... The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun), an important species for commercial and recreational fishing (Whitaker et al., 1998), lives in estuarine and other coastal environments ...
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Perireceptor mechanisms sustaining olfaction at low salinities: insight from the euryhaline blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... euryhaline blue crab Callinectes sapidus contain the finely branched outer dendritic segments (ODSs) of between 40 and 160 olfactory receptor cells; as in the aesthetascs of other crustaceans ...
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Integrated physiological responses to feeding in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... The passage of a barium meal (15 % by mass) was followed through the digestive system of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus by flash-freezing crabs at set intervals, followed by radiography of ...
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Metabolic influences of fiber size in aerobic and anaerobic locomotor muscles of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus
... adult blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, exceed 500·µm whereas juvenile white fibers are ...Thus, blue crab dark levator fibers are unusual in having metabolic functional units ...
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The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... The blue crab Callinectes sapidus is both colorful and highly visually responsive, yet almost all studies of their courtship have focused on chemical ...the blue crabʼs underwater ...
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Growth and Mortality of Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) in the North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea
... The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is endemic to the western Atlantic ...the blue crab is an important component of estuarine food webs, acting as a dominant, opportunistic ...
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Effects of molting on the visual acuity of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus
... The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896, has large, stalked apposition compound eyes with a minimum inter-ommatidial angle of approximately ...2002). Blue crabs are often ...
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The male blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, uses both chromatic and achromatic cues during mate choice
... the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, claw color varies by sex, sexual maturity and ...male blue crabs are capable of discriminating the natural variations in claw color that may be ...
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Implications of a Decrease in the Mature Size of Female Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus
... Large males provided more sperm than did smaller males when paired with large females, providing reproductive benefit to the large female, consistent with other reports of greater sperm transfer by larger males (Jivoff ...
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Sustaining olfaction at low salinities: mapping ion flux associated with the olfactory sensilla of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... Flux profiles extending into the aesthetasc tuft from its ventral surface revealed an increase to a peak level just distal to the constricted region of the aesthetascs, followed by a steep drop or even a reversal of flux ...
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Growth and Reproduction Biology of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896, in the Beymelek Lagoon (Southwestern Coast of Turkey)
... about blue crabs in Turkey concerning length-weight relationships (Atar and Secer, 2003; Gokce et ...the blue crab from Turkish seas is very ...
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Salinity stimulated changes in expression and activity of two carbonic anhydrase isoforms in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... As discussed above, for crabs acclimated to 35·p.p.t., the relative levels of CasCAg mRNA are between 500 and 10·000 times higher than that for CasCAc (in G7 and G3, respectively). Despite this large difference in ...
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Temperature and the Physiology of Intracellular and Extracellular Acid Base Regulation in the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus
... Acute temperature change study Extracellular and whole body intracellular acid-base, status and acidic equivalent flux to the environment were followed in 20°C-acclimated crabs N = 10 su[r] ...
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Na++K+ ATPase in gills of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus: cDNA sequencing and salinity related expression of α subunit mRNA and protein
... The α-subunit protein was identified in C. sapidus gills by western blotting of partially purified plasma membrane proteins separated by SDS–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The α5 antibody detected a single ...
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Osmotic effects on arginine kinase function in living muscle of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
... The blue crab Callinectes sapidus inhabits estuarine environments that range in salinity from full-strength sea water to fresh water (Mangum and Amende, 1972; Lynch et ...organisms, ...
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Short Communication: Lactate Dynamics During Locomotor Activity in the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus
... Since there was little or no net formation of lactate in the animal between 10 and 30min, most or all of the lactate entering the haemolymph during this period must have been produced in[r] ...
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Postmoult Uptake of Calcium by the Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus) in Water of low Salinity
... The uptake rate for calcium ions during the period of rapid calcium uptake is similar to those of both sodium and chloride at intermoult in blue crabs acclimated to fresh water Table 2..[r] ...
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Aquatic versus terrestrial crab skeletal support: morphology, mechanics, molting and scaling
... aquatic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, and the terrestrial blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, I measured and compared body mass, merus morphology (dimensions, cuticle thickness ...
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