Land Crab
Study of thermal stability of beta glucosidase from the land crab digestive juice (Cardisoma armatum): kinetic and thermodynamic analysis
... over a range of temperatures from 60 to 75°C on beta- glucosidase was evaluated by determining the residual enzymatic activity. Thermal stability profile of this enzyme presented in the form of the residual percentage ...
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Urate deposits in the gecarcinid land crab Gecarcoidea natalis are synthesised de novo from excess dietary nitrogen
... the land crab Gecarcoidea natalis, 85 % of the stored purine is urate and the remaining 15 % consists of hypoxanthine, guanine and xanthine (Linton and Greenaway, ...
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Rheb, an activator of target of rapamycin, in the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis: cloning and effects of molting and unweighting on expression in skeletal muscle
... blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, a Mstn-like gene (Gl-Mstn) is downregulated as much as 17-fold in claw muscle during premolt and upregulated 3-fold in unweighted thoracic muscle during ...
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Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling genes in decapod crustaceans: cloning and tissue expression of mTOR, Akt, Rheb, and S6 kinase in the green crab, Carcinus maenas, and blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis
... blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, and Rheb from the green crab, Carcinus maenas, and the American lobster, Homarus americanus (MacLea et ...
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Roles of mechanistic target of rapamycin and transforming growth factor-B signaling in the molting gland (Y-organ) of the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis
... Roles of mechanistic target of rapamycin and transforming growth factor-B signaling in the molting gland (Y-organ) of the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis... ABSTRACT.[r] ...
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The last piece in the cellulase puzzle: the characterisation of β glucosidase from the herbivorous gecarcinid land crab Gecarcoidea natalis
... A 160 kDa enzyme with -glucosidase activity was purified from the midgut gland of the land crab Gecarcoidea natalis . The enzyme was capable of releasing glucose progressively from cellobiose, cellotriose ...
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Respiration in the Land Crab, Gecarcinus Lateralis
... The post-branchial oxygen tension of 80-5 torr in Gecarcinus is high, and compares with the value of 78 torr in Birgus Cameron & Mecklenburg, 1973, although two other land crabs Coenobit[r] ...
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Sensory Basis and Functional Role of Eye Movements Elicited During Locomotion in the Land Crab Cardisoma Guanhumi
... Although there is ample evidence that increasing the number of contrasts increases the amplitude of optokinetic responses up to a certain level, where the response saturates Kunze, 1963,[r] ...
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The Physiology of Dehydration Stress in the Land Crab, Cardisoma Carnifex: Respiration, Ionoregulation, Acid Base Balance and Nitrogenous Waste Excretion
... Changes in the components of arterial haemolymph acid-base status in Cardisoma carnifex during 192h of dehydration 18% loss of body water followed by 36 h of rehydration.. • Significantl[r] ...
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the Haemolymph as a Storage Site for Cuticular ions During Premoult in the Freshwater/Land Crab Holthuisana Transversa
... Total concentrations of calcium, magnesium and inorganic phosphate in the haemolymph were measured during intermoult, late premoult and early postmoult stages.. Haemolymph was obtained u[r] ...
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Ventilation, Circulation and Their Interactions in the Land Crab, Cardisoma Guanhumi
... Physiological variables for ventilation scaphognathite frequency, branchial chamber pressure and branchial air flow and for circulation heart rate, intracardiac and pericardial haemolymp[r] ...
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Aquatic Gas Exchange in the Freshwater/Land Crab, Holthuisana Transversa
... Resting oxygen consumption is regulated over a wide range of external oxygen tension Arudpragasam & Naylor, 1964; Johansen, Lenfant & Mecklenburg, 1970; cy words: Gas exchange, Holthuisa[r] ...
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Capture and commercialization of blue land crabs ("guaiamum") Cardisoma guanhumi (Lattreille, 1825) along the coast of Bahia State, Brazil: an ethnoecological approach
... Blue Land Crab ("goiamum ” ) (Cardisoma guanhumi), the Mangrove Root Crab ("aratu ” ) (Goniopsis cruentata), the Swimming Crab group ("siris ” ) (Callinectes ...Mangrove ...
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Articles
... The land crab Johngarthia planata (Stimpson, 1860) has been reported from the Baja California Peninsula and several oceanic islands in the Eastern Pacific as well as inshore islands of the Mexican, Costa ...
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Aerial Gas Exchange in Australian Freshwater/Land Crabs of the Genus Holthuisana
... The freshwater/land crab Holthuisana transversa breathes air by a tidal mechanism involving lateral oscillations of the thoracic walls within the branchial chambers and cessation of scap[r] ...
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Aquatic versus terrestrial crab skeletal support: morphology, mechanics, molting and scaling
... on land. Using the aquatic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, and the terrestrial blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, I measured and compared body mass, merus morphology (dimensions, ...
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Ammonia excretion in aquatic and terrestrial crabs
... shore crab Carcinus maenas, however, RhCM would be co-localized with the H + -ATPase within the membranes of intracellular vesicles to support the proposed vesicular acid- trapping ...
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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)
... krill, shrimp, crayfish, crabs and lobsters (JyothikaDhankhar et al., 2012), because it is synthesized by phytoplankton and zooplankton and bio-accumulates throughout the food web (Daly et al., 2012). Astaxanthinfound in ...
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Quality Control Strategy On Crab Handling Process By Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Method
... fresh crab requires a long storage with cold room temperature with a variety of packaging such as jars and ...of crab meat products used car from companies, however, these vehicles are often late that ice ...
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The crab Neohelice (=Chasmagnathus) granulata: an emergent animal model from emergent countries
... semiterrestrial crab found in the intertidal zone of estuaries, salt marshes and mangroves of the South-western Atlantic ...studied crab species, after Carcinus maenas, Callinectes sapidus, Scylla serrata ...
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