Scientists have set themselves the goal of exploiting the advantages of a special type of zooplankton on a large scale called Copepods. Scientists at SINTEF have set themselves the goal of ...

Rather, only half as many eggs survived. "We believe the reason is cannibalism and we think it's a self-regulating mechanism that no-one has found before in the open sea," says Scripps's Mark Ohman.

Maternal aging in the univoltine freshwater copepod Cyclops kolensis: Variation in egg sizes, egg development times, and naupliar development times. Hydrobiologia 510: 75–81. doi:10.1023/B: ...

Copepods, which are important for the food webs of the ocean, can genetically adapt to warmer and more acidic seas. This is the result of a study led by GEOMAR, together with the University of ...

The copepod Acartia tonsa has 13 developmental stages, from egg through adult (clockwise).

Dinoflagellate plankton glow so that their predators won't eat them Date: June 17, 2019 Source: Cell Press Summary: Some dinoflagellate plankton species are bioluminescent, with a remarkable ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 6 (2013), pp. 2145-2157 (13 pages) In most aquatic ecosystems, copepod nauplii outnumber all other mesozooplankton. Although thousands of studies have examined ...

Tiny shrimp-like creatures called copepods break through the ocean's surface and leap through the air to escape predators, US scientists say. They have been investigating how the brightly ...