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Cryptoniscans don't go straight home

Creator:

Crooks, Katherine E.

Resource Type:

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Are cryptoniscans waiting for a good home?

Creator:

Yates, Kelsey

Abstract:

The North American host of the introduced Asian isopod parasite, Orthione griffenis, is the burrowing Blue Mud Shrimp, Upogebia pugettensis. The shrimp are the predominant species in the Yaquina Bay estuary intertidal mudflats, and are essential ecosystem engineers. The parasite effectively castrates the shrimp host without causing mortality which allows...

Resource Type:

Presentation