Marine free living copepods can survive harsh periods and cope with seasonal fluctuations
in environmental conditions using resting eggs (embryonic dormancy). Laboratory …

We examined the response of the tropical sand dollar Arachnoides placenta to reduced
seawater pH in experiments spanning ca. 50% of the planktonic larval duration. A. placenta …

Invertebrates that brood eggs or offer parental care to developing embryos incur a cost of
reproduction in addition to that associated with the production of eggs. This additional cost is …

The ecophysiology of marine ectotherms is regulated by the interaction of temperature with
environmental drivers, such as dissolved oxygen (DO). The combination of low levels of DO …

The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of both extracapsular oxygen
concentration and temperature on embryonic development in Chorus giganteus. In …

Background Copepods make up the largest zooplankton biomass in coastal areas and
estuaries and are pivotal for the normal development of fish larva of countless species …

The degree to which larvae of the invasive American slipper limpet (Crepidula fornicata) and
the Japanese oyster (Crassostrea gigas) may compete for food was examined during 2003 …

Although polyclads are amongst the most structurally simple of the triploblastic metazoans,
they adopt a wide range of reproductive strategies. Parental care behaviour in this group is …

Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is being absorbed by seawater resulting
in increasingly acidic oceans, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA is thought to …

Many invertebrates enclose their embryos within egg capsules, from which the offspring
hatch. In marine gastropods that brood their egg capsules, hatching could involve radular …