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 feeding by later life history ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents ...

Parasitic copepods are “parasitic barnacles,” though ... Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre in Australia reports. They ...

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 ...

“Like whale sharks and unlike white sharks, these gentle giants filter feed on dense clumps of copepods, tiny crustaceans about the size of a grain of rice,” the agency said. Sometimes ...

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 ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...