Alien-looking baby crabs. These planktonic zoeas in my sample are the 1st larval stage of seabed-living crabs. Living at the sea surface they are surrounded by phytoplankton food and the currents help them disperse to new places; their spines are likely, defensive. ZEISS Microscopy
A rare planktonic larva (Phyllosoma) of a Slipper Lobster from the collection.
Eggs carried by the female hatch into small, flat & transparent spindly larval phyllosomas or 'leaf bodies’
Tasman Sea 2004
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Temporal dynamics and biogeography of sympagic and planktonic autotrophic microbial eukaryotes during the under-ice Arctic bloom biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_ecology
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For this month's topic #EYANature , we introduce you to the archives of Dr. Mary Parke. She worked on planktonic algae and seaweeds in the UK. This collection is housed in the National Marine Biological Library.
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A Blunt Penguin Crispin Cowan 🇺🇦 Cheryl Bruja🦎🐒 Look up Planktonic foraminifera, tiny shelled organisms that fall to the seabed when they die. There are between 7-10k species alive today, and 40K extinct species. We can track their changes in essentially real time by a plethora of their remains. Speciation is not in doubt.
