Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
Is that a gang sign that crab is flashing? West Side ya'll!
A half-blue lobster! Its cool how the mutation only affects part of the segment. In arthropods, each half of a segment is regulated by developmental patterning genes. Much work has been done on this in Drosophila research.
For more of the crustacean freak-show,including double crusher claws and albino lobsters, visit GoodMorningGloucester a wonderful blog that journals life on the docks in Gloucester. Make sure you sign up for their RSS feed!
Comments
Punk Lobster!
Posted by: OriGuy | April 25, 2008 12:07 PM
Hey, thanks for the mention.
Here is a video post you might enjoy-
http://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bananahead/
Posted by: Joey | April 26, 2008 2:17 AM
Is that a result of Hox genes in the first ?
There was a loster (H. americanus) caught locally with two claws on the one side. The right claws fixed finger (propodus) sprouted an entire second claw structure opposite to the movable finger (dactyl). It was much smaller and a mirror image of the normal claw with the plane of the mirror through the fixed claw. In essence it had a second smaller movable finger below the main claw structure. Weird and cool at the same time.
Posted by: eric.heupel@uconn.edu | April 26, 2008 2:07 PM