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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tips From a Crab-Samplin' Seafarer
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Pack sweats. You can wear sweatpants all day, every day, and no one will judge you! Seasick? Dramamine is good if you want to sleep through...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Hormones can be fun!
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Part of this research project is measuring reproductive hormones in male snow crabs. But who really cares about mating hormones? The answer ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
The Tale of Legoless
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Legoless was a recently-molted crab wandering the benthos of the eastern Bering Sea, when all of a sudden he was snatched up by a trawler! B...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Size Matters
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One way to group male snow crabs is to use their relative claw size. Male opies can be small-clawed adolescents or large-clawed adults. T...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Gonadosomatic Index: a how-to
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Why am I measuring gonads? I measure the whole weight of a male crab, then I measure his gonad weight to calculate gonadosomatic index (GSI)...
I measure crab gonads.
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Yep, that's right: crab gonads. It's part of a study on male snow crab ( Chionoecetes opilio ) reproduction looking at hormones, str...
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