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Everything you always wanted to know about crayfish but were too afraid to ask….
Posted by Coturnix on March 14, 2007 If (like me) you have a special fondness for crayfish, then this post by Burning Silo is a Must Read of the day!
Responsible consumption of shrimp
Posted by Coturnix on January 29, 2007 I love seafood, but I eat it quite rarely. About a third of my old Department did fisheries and aquaculture science so I’ve seen many seminars and Thesis defenses on the topic and am quite aware of the problems with the world’s fisheries stocks. I also prefer freshwater fish – I grew up on the…
Invertebrate blogging of the month
Posted by Coturnix on December 31, 2006 Circus of the Spineless #16 is up on The force that through…
Cephalopods don’t need a mirror test – they are mirrors themselves .
Posted by Coturnix on December 9, 2006 PZ probably already knows about this, but I found this discovery of super-reflective skin cells in squid, cuttlefish and octopus quite amazing! Hanlon’s team discovered that the bottom layer of octopus skin, made up of cells called leucophores, is composed of a translucent, colourless, reflecting protein. “Protein reflectors are very odd in the animal kingdom,”…
Invertebrate blogging of the month
Posted by Coturnix on November 2, 2006 Circus of the Spineless #14 is up on Neurophilosopher’s blog
New study on evolution of vision
Posted by Coturnix on October 4, 2006 For easy-to-understand quick look at the evolution of vision I have to refer you to these two posts by PZ Myers, this post of mine, and these two posts by Carl Zimmer. Now, armed with all that knowledge, you will curely appreciate the importance of this new study: Compound Eyes, Evolutionary Ties: Biologists at the…
Diversity of insect circadian clocks – the story of the Monarch butterfly
Posted by Coturnix on October 2, 2006 From January 20, 2006, on the need to check the model-derived findings in non-model organisms.
Spineless in a Tattoo Parlor
Posted by Coturnix on September 25, 2006 You are going to love the latest Circus of the Spineless, now up on Deep Sea News!
Revenge of the Zombifying Wasp
Posted by Coturnix on September 13, 2006 One of the coolest parasites ever (from February 04, 2006):
Cooperative Hithhiking
Posted by Coturnix on September 12, 2006 Baby bugs team up for sex scam The moment they’re born, beetles of one species join forces for a curious drill. The larvae hatch out of their eggs and together, as a group, climb to the tip of the plant. There, they secrete a sex pheromone that attracts a male of a bee who tries…