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I am a returning student intrigued by larval development, extreme habitats, inverts (especially cephalopods and crustaceans), marine conservation and science communication. Where these interests will take me, I don't know exactly but with my family's excellent support it will be an interesting journey!
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- October 26, 2009
- 01:48 AM
- 238 views
Nautilus Night - Cephalopod of Diamonds
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
Ok. I said for each of the Ocean in the Classroom projects fully funded I would put up a post about one invert from the deck of cards I have been working on, along with a sneak peak at a card. So, since the Making Waves, Oceans and Landforms got fully funded, and in honor of Nautilus Night I bring you the Cephalopod of Diamonds - The Chambered Nautilus.Classification for the Chambered NautilusKingdomAnimaliaPhylumMolluscaClassCephalopodaOrderNautilidaFamilyNautilidaeGenusNautilusSpeciesN. belaue........ Read more »
Sinclair, B., Briskey, L., Aspden, W., & Pegg, G. (2006) Genetic diversity of isolated populations of Nautilus pompilius (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 17(2-3), 223-235. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-006-9030-x
- October 25, 2009
- 01:08 PM
- 525 views
Crepidula Fornicata
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
We've got two new Ocean Inspired Donors Choose projects that have been funded in the Oceans in the Classroom Challenge! The first one that was funded on Thursday was the awesome Invertebrates in my Tank project that will provide lots of kids with the opportunity to explore one of our favorite subjects: marine inverts! The Inverts in my Tank card is the 6 of Spades — The Slipper Snail, Crepidula fornicata.Classification for the Atlantic Slippersnail KingdomAnimalia PhylumMollusca ClassBivalv........ Read more »
Proestou DA, Goldsmith MR, & Twombly S. (2008) Patterns of male reproductive success in Crepidula fornicata provide new insight for sex allocation and optimal sex change. The Biological bulletin, 214(2), 194-202. PMID: 18401001
Richard, J., Huet, M., Thouzeau, G., & Paulet, Y. (2006) Reproduction of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata, in the Bay of Brest, France. Marine Biology, 149(4), 789-801. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0157-4
- October 16, 2009
- 05:08 PM
- 538 views
Chlamys islandica, Anarhichas lupus and Climate Change
by Eric Heupel in EclecticEchoes
After posting to the Scallop of Hearts to TO95%, I remembered it’s Blog Action Day for the cause of climate change awareness.
One of the major concerns with climate change relates to habitat changes for the plants and animals. Will aspen survive anywhere in the United States? What trees will be able to survive in [...]... Read more »
Burreson, E., & Ford, S. (2004) A review of recent information on the Haplosporidia, with special reference to Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX disease). Aquating Living Resources, 17(4), 499-517. DOI: 10.1051/alr:2004056
Hagen, N., & Mann, K.H. (1992) Functional response of the predators American lobster Homarus americanus (Milne-Edwards) and Atlantic wolffish Anarhichas lupus (L.) to increasing numbers of the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (Müller). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 159(1), 89-112. DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(92)90260-H
Jonasson, J., Thorarinsdottir, G., Eiriksson, H., & Marteinsdottir, G. (2004) Temperature tolerance of Iceland scallop, Chlamys islandica (O.F. Muller) under controlled experimental conditions. Aquaculture Research, 35(15), 1405-1414. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2004.01159.x
King, M.J., Kao, M.H., Brown, J.A, & Fletcher, G.L. (1989) Lethal freezing temperatures of fish: limitations to seapen culture in Atlantic Canada. Proc Ann Aquacult Assoc Can., 89(3), 47-49. info:/
Ordás, M., & Figueras, A. (1998) In vitro culture of Perkinsus atlanticus, a parasite of the carpet shell clam Ruditapes decussatus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 129-136. DOI: 10.3354/dao033129
- October 15, 2009
- 06:56 PM
- 532 views
Iceland Scallop
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
Time to celebrate the funding of Mrs. M.'s project, Coral Reef Flip Books, part of the Ocean Bloggers Oceans in the Classroom Initiative. Yesterday I asked for input on which card to feature, and the results are in: with 33.33% of the "vote" the Scallop of Hearts gets the next preview here. I should note that the picture on this card is likely to change before the final version, when we hopefully will get an image of a live animal without too many epibionts (organisms that live on the surface of........ Read more »
Arsenault, D., Giasson, M., & Himmelman, J. (2000) Field examination of dispersion patterns of juvenile Iceland scallops (Chlamys islandica) in the northern Gulf of St Lawrence. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 80(3), 501-508. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315400002198
GARCIA, E. (2006) The Fishery for Iceland Scallop (Chlamys islandica) in the Northeast Atlantic. Advances in Marine Biology, 1-55. DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2881(06)51001-6
Jonasson, J., Thorarinsdottir, G., Eiriksson, H., Solmundsson, J., & Marteinsdottir, G. (2006) Collapse of the fishery for Iceland scallop (Chlamys islandica) in Breidafjordur, West Iceland. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64(2), 298-308. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsl028
WROBLEWSKI, J., BELL, T., COPELAND, A., EDINGER, E., FENG, C., SAXBY, J., SCHNEIDER, D., & SIMMS, J. (2009) Toward a sustainable Iceland scallop fishery in Gilbert Bay, a marine protected area in the eastern Canada coastal zone. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(3), 424-430. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2008.08.004
- May 16, 2009
- 01:41 AM
- 577 views
SpeciesDay - Unionidae
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
It's been a bit quieter around here than Kevin and I prefer, but now the finals are all done and I can finally say "I can has cheezburger wit dat?"Seriously though, in the next month or so there will be some changes in this space... in the mean time:Did you know there are 198 invertebrates listed under the Endangered Species Act? Yep, inverts make up 34% of the 575 animals protected under ESA. But is this good or bad that inverts are underrepresented here?? Care to guess how many of those 198 a........ Read more »
Roe, K., Hartfield, P., & Lydeard, C. (2001) Phylogeographic analysis of the threatened and endangered superconglutinate-producing mussels of the genus Lampsilis (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Molecular Ecology, 10(9), 2225-2234. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01361.x
Bogan, A., & Roe, K. (2008) Freshwater bivalve (Unioniformes) diversity, systematics, and evolution: status and future directions. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27(2), 349-369. DOI: 10.1899/07-069.1
Barnhart, M., Haag, W., & Roston, W. (2008) Adaptations to host infection and larval parasitism in Unionoida. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27(2), 370-394. DOI: 10.1899/07-093.1
- February 21, 2009
- 04:00 PM
- 1,242 views
Deep Sea Fishing Impacts Sea Mounts
by Eric Heupel in EclecticEchoes
Deep Sea News and Seamounts in PLoS
Dr. McClain over at Deep Sea News recently published a very readable open access paper at PLoS ONE about the potential connectedness of seamounts and nearby habitats. I love that the paper was highly accessible, both in the writing and the fact that anyone can download it from [...]... Read more »
Peter J. Auster, Jon Moore, Kari B. Heinonen, & Les Watling. (2005) A habitat classification scheme for seamount landscapes: assessing the functional role of deep-water corals as fish habitat. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems, 761-769. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27673-4_40
Craig R. McClain, Lonny Lundsten, Micki Ream, James Barry, & Andrew DeVogelaere. (2009) Endemicity, Biogeography, Composition, and Community Structure On a Northeast Pacific Seamount. PLoS ONE, 4(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004141
Rhian Waller, Les Watling, Peter Auster, & Timothy Shank. (2007) Anthropogenic impacts on the Corner Rise seamounts, north-west Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 87(05). DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407057785
- February 2, 2009
- 01:11 AM
- 747 views
Cephalopod-tastic Friday
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
Roger Hanlon, from the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, came out to UCONN's Avery Point campus to present for our Friday seminar series. His presentation was a good overview of his lab's work on cephalopod camouflage behavior over the past decades, with the majority of the discussion on the work they have done recently with the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis. So I hope you will bear with me while I gush on a bit about my favorite group of animals and their amazing adaptations, which allow ........ Read more »
Alexandra Barbosa, Leonild Litman, & Roger T. Hanlon. (2008) Changeable cuttlefish camouflage is influenced by horizontal and vertical aspects of the visual background. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 194(4), 405-413. DOI: 10.1007/s00359-007-0311-1
A BARBOSA, L MATHGER, K BURESCH, J KELLY, C CHUBB, C CHIAO, & R HANLON. (2008) Cuttlefish camouflage: The effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns. Vision Research, 48(10), 1242-1253. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.011
A. Barbosa, L. M. Mathger, C. Chubb, C. Florio, C.-C. Chiao, & R. T. Hanlon. (2007) Disruptive coloration in cuttlefish: a visual perception mechanism that regulates ontogenetic adjustment of skin patterning. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(7), 1139-1147. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02741
Roger T. Hanlon, Marie‐José Naud, John W. Forsythe, Karina Hall, Anya C. Watson, & Joy McKechnie. (2007) Adaptable Night Camouflage by Cuttlefish. The American Naturalist, 169(4), 543-551. DOI: 10.1086/512106
Roger T. Hanlon, Marié-Jose Naud, Paul W. Shaw, & Jon N. Havenhand. (2005) Behavioural ecology: Transient sexual mimicry leads to fertilization. Nature, 433(7023), 212-212. DOI: 10.1038/433212a
Lydia M. Mäthger, Chuan-Chin Chiao, Alexandra Barbosa, & Roger T. Hanlon. (2008) Color matching on natural substrates in cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 194(6), 577-585. DOI: 10.1007/s00359-008-0332-4
L MATHGER, A BARBOSA, S MINER, & R HANLON. (2006) Color blindness and contrast perception in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) determined by a visual sensorimotor assay. Vision Research, 46(11), 1746-1753. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.035
Richard L. Sutherland, Lydia M. Mäthger, Roger T. Hanlon, Augustine M. Urbas, & Morley O. Stone. (2008) Cephalopod coloration model. II. Multiple layer skin effects. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25(8), 2044. DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002044
- October 2, 2008
- 03:37 PM
- 910 views
Blue Blow Fly - Cynomyopsis cadaverina
by Eric Heupel in Larval Images
Yummm… necrophagous larvae, or maggots, of the Blue Blow-Fly,Cynomyopsis cadaverina (Robineau-Desvoidy). The larvae of many species of fly feed on dead tissue. This is highly useful as an ecosystem service as they very effectively clean up any carrion that is missed or left over from any larger scavengers.
Some species maggots feed only on necrotic [...]... Read more »
J Wells, F Introna, G Di Vella, & C Campobasso. (2001) Human and Insect Mitochondrial DNA Analysis from Maggots. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 46(3). DOI: http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/scholar.cgi?JFS4630685
- September 18, 2008
- 11:03 PM
- 850 views
Wilted Greens
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
Differential Grasshopper by Eclectic Echoes ©2008 BY-NCDid you know that the Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) prefers wilted or damaged sunflowers? This one is seen on a sunflower that was damaged in recent winds we had here (tail end of Hanna). I wondered why it was that the grasshoppers (2 found) and the evidence of grasshopper activity – chewed leaves and copious amounts of feces – was all on the damaged sunflowers and not on the still healthy plants.In 1984, A. C. Le........ Read more »
A. C. Lewis. (1984) Plant Quality and Grasshopper Feeding: Effects of Sunflower Condition on Preference and Performance in Melanoplus Differentialis. Ecology, 65(3), 836-843. DOI: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici
- September 12, 2008
- 06:05 AM
- 810 views
Monarch - 5th Instar
by Eric Heupel in Larval Images
5th Instar, originally uploaded by eclectic echoes..
Many people are familiar with the incredible migration of the monarch butterflies from all over North America to Mexico. Coupled with it’s beautiful and distinctive coloration the migration is what makes this butterfly as well known and appreciated.
According to recent DNA analysis by Smith et al. in 2005, there [...]... Read more »
Haisun Zhu, Amy Casselman, Steven M. Reppert, & Dawn Albertson. (2008) Chasing Migration Genes: A Brain Expressed Sequence Tag Resource for Summer and Migratory Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus). PLoS ONE, 3(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001345
- September 11, 2008
- 12:30 PM
- 859 views
Masai Giraffes
by Eric Heupel in EclecticEchoes
A pair of Masai giraffes photographed in Kenya. Copyright Jim Heupel
My father is a professional nature photographer and one of the perks of that is having an excuse to travel around the world (hopefully writing it off as a business expense!). He recently returned from a trip (with Mom) to Kenya for a photo safari. [...]... Read more »
David M Brown, Rick A Brenneman, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, John P Pollinger, Borja Milá, Nicholas J Georgiadis, Edward E Louis, Gregory F Grether, David K Jacobs, & Robert K Wayne. (2007) Extensive population genetic structure in the giraffe. BMC Biology, 5(1), 57. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-57
- September 11, 2008
- 02:12 AM
- 733 views
Monarch - 4th Instar
by Eric Heupel in Larval Images
4th Instar, originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
This is the 4th instar stage Danaus plexippus larva (monarch caterpillar). It is 11 days post hatch and 26.2mm long.
Very few eggs laid actually make it to become pupae, let alone successfully pupate into healthy adults. The sources of mortality are many and come at different stages of the [...]... Read more »
R Koch. (2003) Susceptibility of immature monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae), to predation by Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Biological Control, 28(2), 265-270. DOI: 10.1016/S1049-9644(03)00102-6
- September 5, 2008
- 12:01 AM
- 966 views
Right Whale Lice
by Eric Heupel in The Other 95%
Cyamus ovalis Photo: Vicky Rowntree, University of UtahIn an earlier post, I joked (well half joked) about the need to save the whale lice, even if you don't care about the right whales. I thought today I would expand on the brief comment about the lice and their special relationship with whale and how they can actually tell us about the populations of right whales and their evolution. Image courtesy of Mariano Sironi, Institute of Whale Conservation, Buenos AiresIn the image above you can see ........ Read more »
Zofia a. Kaliszewska, Jon Seger, Victoria J. Rowntree, Susan G. Barco, Rafael Benegas, Peter B. Best, Moira W. Brown, Robert L. Brownell, Alejandro Carribero, Robert Harcourt.... (2005) Population histories of right whales (Cetacea: Eubalaena) inferred from mitochondrial sequence diversities and divergences of their whale lice (Amphipoda: Cyamus). Molecular Ecology, 14(11), 3439-3456. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02664.x
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