Genomic resources are increasingly being used to improve the production efficiency and
profitability of aquaculture. Crustaceans are a large group of invertebrates that …

Decapod crustaceans (crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps, prawns) are sentient
beings, not only responding to noxious stimuli but also being capable of feeling pain …

Life in fresh water is osmotically and energetically challenging for living organisms, requiring
increases in ion uptake from dilute environments. However, mechanisms of ion uptake from …

We examined the effect of the double restriction-recovery cycle on survival, growth, and
nutritional status of the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium borellii, native to floodplain rivers …

The term" allostasis", meaning the assumption that homeostasis may not be as static as the
term implies, has been vastly employed for mammals, and other vertebrates, for which the …

While many freshwater invaders originate from saline habitats, the physiological
mechanisms involved are poorly understood. We investigated evolution of ion transporter …

Hemigrapsus crenulatus is a key species of coastal and estuarine ecosystems in the
Southeastern Pacific and New Zealand. Since the gravid females-and their embryos …

The marine parasitic African pea crab Afropinnotheres monodi Manning, 1993 has well-
established populations in the gulf of Cadiz, where it is invasive. In this study, its tolerance to …

Abstract Effects of temperature on the survival of the pea crab Afropinnotheres monodi, and
on its realized fecundity (number of eggs) and actual fecundity (number of zoeas) were …

Macrobrachium pantanalense is a recently described endemic shrimp from Pantanal. The
species completes its life cycle in freshwater and is used as an ornamental species for …