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Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

#photomicrography
#copepods
#crustaceans

Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

#photomicrography
#copepods
#crustaceans

Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

#photomicrography
#copepods
#crustaceans

Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

#photomicrography
#copepods
#crustaceans

Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

#photomicrography
#copepods
#crustaceans

@RichardAshwell 👀 quite the creature #copepods

27-Jun-2025
Tiny ocean migrants play a massive role in #SouthernOcean #carbonStorage

A groundbreaking study has revealed that small but mighty #zooplankton—including #copepods, #krill, and #salps—are key players in the Southern #Ocean’s ability to absorb and store #carbon.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089054 #science #ecology #climateCatastrophe

Whale sharks given a health check with #ultrasound imaging technique https://phys.org/news/2024-07-whale-sharks-health-ultrasound-imaging.html

Internal organs and body tissues of free-swimming whale sharks imaged using underwater ultrasound https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1285429/full

"when they started to scrape the parasitic #copepods off their lips, the whale #sharks slowed down, hung vertically in the water and treated them like giant cleaner #fish... While the #WhaleSharks were in this position, the researchers were able to use underwater ultrasound"

#Parasite of the Day: Diexanthema hakuhomaruae http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/07/diexanthema-hakuhomaruae.html

D. hakuhomaruae sp. nov. (#Copepoda) from the #HadalZone in the Northwestern #Pacific https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11686-023-00676-z

"Parasitic #copepods come in all kinds of shapes that would defy most people's idea of what a #crustacean is 'supposed' to look like. And D. hakuhomaruae is no different - its tiny body is ROUND and if anything, it looks like a legless tick. And much like a tick, it attaches itself stubbornly to the leg of its host"

Starting the week with a new #preprint! This one's got a little bit of everything:
- #copepods , #parasites , and opportunistic thermal limit measurements
- #DIY lab equipment
- #metaanalysis

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.31.535176v1

Mind blown right here: a marine photographer capturing the bright-colored plankton in a drop of seawater.

#oceanlife #seawater #copepods #photography #marinelife #marinephotography #tinystuff #microscopic

https://kottke.org/23/01/tiny-seawater-worlds

I’m super excited by this one! I believe this is a copepod embryo/nauplius in its hatching membrane (Lugol fixed)😯. After the embryo matures, it breaks out of the outer cyst in this membrane, which then expands before bursting and releasing the nauplius. Swipe to see what I think is an empty cyst (I was wondering this was for ages!)

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #phytoplankton #plankton #copepods #wildlife #nature #microscopy #microorganism

I really need a comprehensive planktonic copepod key, but with the resources I’ve got, I _think_ this is Centropages typicus.

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #plankton #marinetaxonomy #wildlife #nature #microscopy #microorganism #zooplankton #copepods

Can anyone recommend a comprehensive planktonic copepod visual key for the north atlantic? #copepod #copepods #plankton #marinetaxonomy

Good a time as any for an #introduction.
In the lab - biological oceanographer and evolutionary ecologist excited about #evolution, #plankton #ecology, and thermal adaptation.
Outside of lab - amateur musician, even more amateur baker.
Currently gearing up to start an NSF #postdoc on the shared genomic bases of spatial and temporal patterns of adaptation in #copepods.