Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 6 (2013), pp. 2145-2157 (13 pages) In most aquatic ecosystems, copepod nauplii outnumber all other mesozooplankton. Although thousands of studies have examined ...

Three publications recently reported that calanoid copepods, feeding on phytoplankton cells by using a feeding current, perceived such cells by mechanoperception. There was no evidence of remote ...

Parasitic copepods are “parasitic barnacles,” though ... Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre in Australia reports. They feed on tissue and blood of the hosts. In the case of the rattail ...

Aiming a laser and a camera at a feasting sea walnut, Colin tracked the movement of particles in the feeding current and found that the water stream is so wide and slow that the copepod is ...