Fishing with an artificial light stimulus has existed for thousands of years. It started with
simple techniques such as burning a large fire on the beach to attract fish, but over the …

Holothuria scabra is one of the most intensively studied holothuroids, or sea cucumbers
(Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), having been discussed in the literature since the early 19th …

Background Decapods are the most recognizable of all crustaceans and comprise a
dominant group of benthic invertebrates of the continental shelf and slope, including many …

A phylogenetic analysis including representatives from 44 extinct and 27 extant families of
lobsters (Polychelida, Achelata, Glypheidea, and Astacidea), resulted in the recognition of …

Ghost shrimps of Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae are soft-bodied, usually heterochelous
decapods representing major bioturbators of muddy and sandy (sub) marine substrates …

During the past decade, a large number of multi-gene analyses aimed at resolving the
phylogenetic relationships within Decapoda. However relationships among families, and …

Since the late 1800s, several infraordinal relationships have been proposed for Decapoda;
however, reaching a consensus among higher-level relationships is proving difficult …

Caves are perceived as isolated, extreme habitats with a uniquely specialized biota, which
long ago led to the idea that caves are “evolutionary dead-ends.” This implies that cave …

Hermaphrodite systems offer unique opportunities to study sexual differentiation, due to their
high degree of sexual plasticity and to the fact that, unlike gonochoristic systems, the …

In food deprivation assays, several different responses have been observed in crustaceans.
However, studying energy reserves utilization among more than one species during the …