Modern Approaches to the Study of Crustacea

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Seasonal Rhythm of Serotonin Content in the Crayfish Eyestalk....Pages 1-6
Brain Electrical Signals in Unrestrained Crayfish....Pages 7-13
Diel Activity Rhythm in Callinectes Ornatus Ordway, 1863 and Callinectes Danae Smith, 1869 (Brachyura, Portunidae) under Laboratory Conditions....Pages 15-19
Ultrastructural and Biochemical Studies of the Branchiostegite of the Bimodal Breathing Crab Chasmagnathus Granulata Dana, 1851....Pages 21-27
Polyclonal Antisera Against Estuarine Crustacean Vitellins: A Molecular Approach to Reproductive Endocrinology and Toxicology....Pages 29-37
Cytoarchitecture of the Hepatopancreas of Three Species of Crabs from Mar Chiquita Lagoon, Argentina....Pages 39-44
Acclimation of Adult Males of Litopenaeus Setiferus Exposed at 27 °C and 31 °C: Bioenergetic Balance....Pages 45-52
Evaluation of Leguminous Seed Meals ( Rynchosia Minima and Cajanus Cajan ) as Plant Protein Sources in Diets for Juvenile Litopenaeus Vannamei ....Pages 53-57
Histological Alterations in Hepatopancreas of Farfantepenaeus Aztecus Caused by the Cestode Gilquinia Sp. in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico....Pages 59-62
Histological Alterations in Macrobrachium Panamensis Caused by Probopyrus Sp.....Pages 63-65
Hepatopancreas Structure of Palaemonetes Argentinus (Decapoda, Caridea) Fed Different Levels of Dietary Cholesterol....Pages 67-73
Comparative Evaluation of Different Animal Protein Source in Juveniles of Pleoticus Muelleri (Crustacea, Penaeoidea)....Pages 75-78
Effect of Different Dietary Arginine and Lysine Levels for Argentine Prawn Artemesia Longinaris Bate (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidea)....Pages 79-84
Vitamin E Requirement of the Prawn Artemesia Longinaris (Decapoda, Penaeidae)....Pages 85-89
Distribution and Abundance of Diacyclops Sp. (Crustacea: Copepoda) in Gabriel Cave, Oaxaca, Mexico....Pages 91-94
Distribution and Ecology of Isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda) of the Pacific Coast of Mexico....Pages 95-103
Abundance and Distribution of Commensal Amphipods from Common Marine Sponges of Southeast Florida....Pages 105-110
Population Structure of the Macrobenthic Amphipod Hyalella Azteca Saussure (Crustacea: Peracarida) on the Littoral Zone of Six Crater Lakes....Pages 111-115
Composition and Abundance of Shrimp Species (Penaeidea and Caridea) in Fortaleza Bay, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil....Pages 117-123
Population Study of Macrobrachium Tenellum (Smith 1871) in Coyuca De Benítez Lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico....Pages 125-129
Gastropod Shells or Gastropod Tubes? Shelter Choice in the Hermit Crab Calcinus Verrilli ....Pages 131-135
Hermit Crab Fauna from the Infralittoral Zone of Anchieta Island (Ubatuba, Brazil)....Pages 137-143
Breeding Season of the Hermit Crab Petrochirus Diogenes (Anomura: Diogenidae) in the North Coast of São Paulo State, Brazil....Pages 145-150
Distribution and Abundance of the Family Calappidae Off the Coast of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico....Pages 151-156
Sexual Maturity of Eurytium Limosum (Say, 1818) from a Subtropical Mangrove in Brazil....Pages 157-161
Panopeid Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Panopeidae) Associated with Prop Roots of Rhizophora Mangle L. in a Tropical Coastal Lagoon of the Se Gulf of California, Mexico....Pages 163-169
Daily Rhythm of Feeding Activity of the Freshwater Crab Dilocarcinus Pagei Pagei in the Rio Pilcomayo National Park, Formosa, Argentina....Pages 171-178
Population Structure of the Freshwater Crab Trichodactylus Fluviatilis Latreille, 1828 (Decapoda, Trichodactylidae) in Ubatuba, Northern Coast of Sao Paulo State, Brazil....Pages 179-182
Size Variation in the Grapsid Crab Aratus Pisonii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) Among Populations of Different Subtropical Mangroves....Pages 183-188
Morphometric Study of the Ghost Crab Ocypode Quadrata (Fabricius, 1887) (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil....Pages 189-195
Shallow-Water Benthic Decapod Crustaceans of Chankanaab Park, Cozumel Island, Mexico....Pages 197-204
Symbiosis Between Portunus Spinimanus Latreille, 1819 (Decapoda, Portunidae) and Octolasmis Lowei (Darwin, 1852) (Thoracica, Poecilasmatidae) from Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil....Pages 205-209
Habitat Specialization and its Relation to Conservation Policy in Crustacea....Pages 211-221
Temporary Water Crustaceans: Biodiversity and Habitat Loss....Pages 223-233
Distribution of Continental Shelf Decapod Crustaceans Along the American Pacific Coast....Pages 235-239
Distribution of Intertidal Non-Brachyuran Decapods from the Gulf of California Islands and its Biogeographical Implications....Pages 241-252
Conservation of Continental Copepod Crustaceans....Pages 253-261
Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the Lowland Floodplain of the River Pripyat....Pages 263-273
Effects of Abandoned Mine Drainage on Crayfish Distribution Along a PH Gradient....Pages 275-279
Large Freshwater Branchiopods in Austria: Diversity, Threats and Conservational Status....Pages 281-289
Microsatellites in Shrimp Species....Pages 291-299
A Scenario for the Evolution of the Rhizocephala....Pages 301-310
Morphological Variation in the Crayfish Cambarellus ( Cambarellus ) Montezumae (Decapoda: Cambaridae)....Pages 311-317
Phylogenetic Relationships in Some Species of the Genus Macrobrachium Based on Nucleotide Sequences of the Mitochondrial Gene Cytochrome Oxidase I....Pages 319-322
The First Two Larval Stages of Two Freshwater Shrimps Genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory, with a Discussion on the Significance of Abbreviated Development for the Radiation of the Genus....Pages 323-328
A New Species of Leidya Cornalia and Panceri, 1861, and the First Record of the Genus Lobocepon Nobili, 1905, Both from the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with a Review of the Parasites of Grapsid Crabs Worldwide (Isopoda, Bopyridae, Ioninae)....Pages 329-338
Back Matter....Pages 339-355