Psssst, mud crabs, time to hide because blue crabs are coming to eat you! That's the warning the prey get from the predators' urine when it spikes with high concentrations of two chemicals, which researchers have identified ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2018
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Crabs are unique and continuously evolving animals, often moving their lifestyles out of marine environments for other environments to do so. The most popular food species can be fully marine (snow crab) or estuarine (Maryland ...
Evolution
Nov 6, 2023
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Dr. David Johnson, an ecologist at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has spent more than 20 years in salt marshes, at sites all along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. But while doing research in a Virginia ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 16, 2022
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Female beauty may have less to do with attracting the opposite sex than previously thought, at least in the animal world, researchers say.
Evolution
Jan 30, 2017
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Scientists discover new hormone in the eyestalks of blue crabs responsible for forming body parts that make it possible for female crabs to mate and raise young.
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2014
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Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue crabs and is ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2012
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The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, long prized as a savory meal at a summer party or seafood restaurant, is a multi-million dollar source of income for those who harvest, process and market the crustacean along ...
Biochemistry
Jan 26, 2010
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Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab—a species that ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2023
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The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine to Alaska.
Ecology
Apr 22, 2023
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When it comes to recreational crabbing—one of the most iconic pastimes along Maryland's shores—the current estimate of 8% of "total male commercial harvest" runs just a little too low. Biologists, with local community ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2021
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