blue swimmer crab
IgE reactivity of blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) tropomyosin, Por p 1, and other allergens; cross-reactivity with black tiger prawn and effects of heating
... of Blue Swimmer Crab Tropomyosin A band corresponding to the predominant IgE-reactive 39 kDa protein was excised from the SDS gel for mass spectrometric ...the crab TM, total RNA was extracted ...
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THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SEXUALLY MATURE BLUE SWIMMER CRAB (Portunus pelagicus, Linnaeus 1758) IN THE MERSIN BAY
... Fatty acid profiles of fat extracted from blue swimmer crab samples were determined by gas chromatography (GC) of methyl esters. Methyl esters were prepared by transmethylation using 2 M KOH in ...
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Level 1 Ecological Risk Assessment - Mud & Blue Swimmer Crab (C1) Fishery
... to crab pots being submerged for several hours at a time and the need for turtles to access the surface to ...the blue swimmer crab fishery overlaps with habitats preferred by marine turtles ...
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Lipid nutrition of early life history of two commercially important tropical crustaceans, the blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) and the ornate rock lobster (Panulirus ornatus), with emphasis on highly unsaturated fatty acids
... However, although the enrich Artemia and un-enriched nauplii contained similar levels of ARA (ca.1% total fatty acids), megalopae and first stage crabs contained significantly higher percentage of ARA than zoea IV (P ...
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Mud & Blue Swimmer Crab (C1) Fishery Scoping Study
... Mud crab catch is distributed along the Queensland coastline with notable hotspots occurring in south-east ...the blue swimmer crab catch which is largely confined to the south-east corner of ...
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Assessment of the blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus) fishery in Queensland
... The blue swimmer crab (BSC) fishery in Queensland has undergone considerable change since its development in the middle of the 20th ...of crab-pot fisheries to areas outside of Moreton ...
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Investigating the survival, growth and osmoregulatory responses of blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus, early juveniles to salinity and ammonia challenge
... A total of 288 crabs (C5 stage; mean weight = 0.225 ± 0.012 g), each individually kept within a separate container thus acting as a replicate, were used in the experiment. Among these, 140 replicate crabs were used for ...
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Alterations in Size, Weight and Morphology of the Eggs of Blue Swimmer Crab, Portunus pelagicus Linnaeus, 1758 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) during Incubation
... The blue swimming crab Portunus pelagicus is a candidate species for culture because of its fast growth, attractive appearance and taste. P. pelagicus occurs in shallow, tropical and temperate coastal and ...
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Towards development of a formulated diet for blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus with emphasis on lipid nutrition
... The results of previous research have shown that the optimal level of dietary cholesterol for crustaceans varies among species and according to their age and developmental stage. For example, the acceptable or optimal ...
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Distribution of barnacle epizoites of the crab Portunus pelagicus in the Moreton Bay region, eastern Australia
... The blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus, from areas around Moreton Bay displayed a markedly higher preva- lence (92%) of Octolasmis ...the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (40%), Shields ...
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Effect of thermal processing on T cell reactivity of shellfish allergens - discordance with IgE reactivity
... mud crab and blue swimmer crab extracts were prepared and IgE reactivity assessed by ...mud crab extract but predominant heat-stable tropomyosin in the cooked ...the crab and ...
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Identification of blue swimming crab portunus pelagicus using molecular taxonomy
... Portunus pelagicus are members of crustacea. They belong to the order Decapoda and are placed under the infra-order Brachyura indicating that Portunus pelagicus is a true crab according to Guinot classification ...
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Biophysical Dispersal Dynamics of the Blue Crab in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina
... Financial support for the research described here was provided by the National Science Foundation (OCE 97-34472 to D. Eggleston and OCE-0221099 to D. Eggleston, R. Forward, and T. Hopkins), as well as Sigma Xi ...
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Scale Dependent Movements and Protection of the Female Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus
... be costly in terms of energy spent on locomotion and hence unavailable for maximization of reproductive output. We suggest that our migration timetable is consistent with the selective forces that seem to operate in the ...
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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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Enhanced Blue Crab Predation on Rangia Clams after Exposure to Hypoxia
... Blue crabs certainly feed on smaller rangia clams in Lake Pontchartrain, but once they reach a larger size (>21 mm), the clams become protected from predation (Abadie and Poirrier ...that blue ...
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Glucose Transport by the In Vitro Perfused Midgut of the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus
... In another series of experiments, variation of unidirectional serosal to mucosal flux with serosal glucose concentration was studied by exposing the tissue sequentially to salines of the[r] ...
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POST MOULT CALCIFICATION IN THE BLUE CRAB, CALLINECTES SAPIDUS: TIMING AND MECHANISM
... Gill assays For the studies of calcium uptake by isolated gill slices, the sixth and seventh gills were quickly dissected free from freshly killed crabs and immediately placed in a shall[r] ...
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Life as a Swimmer
... Acidic swimming pools have also been found to be damaging to teeth. Erosion of dental enamel can be caused by contact with the acidic water when pH of the water drops below that of saliva. 33, 34 It seems that prolonged ...
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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 along the ...
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