The dense phytoplankton blooms that characterize productive regions and seasons in the sea are dominated, from high to low latitudes and from coast line to open ocean, by comparatively few, often ...

The proximal portions of remipedian and cephalocarid trunk limbs were observed in detail. Some phylogenetically important structures have been formerly overlooked or ignored. The lobelike outer part ...

These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant. But throw in an oil spill and some well-intentioned human intervention and they can have a huge impact, ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...

Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean than previously thought, scientists report. Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

A common and widespread species of freshwater plankton, called a copepod, forms new species at an uncommonly high rate, scientists have discovered. Indeed, a new study has revealed that what was once ...

Members of Tigriopus californicus, an harpacticoid copepod, live in small, shallow tidepools in the upper spray zone where they cannot avoid the full effect of visible and ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Copepods are the world's best animal jumpers, suggests a new study that determined these tiny crustaceans jump with greater muscle power than kangaroos, frogs and all other impressive animal leapers.

THOUGH NOT CHARISMATIC, Calanus glacialis is one of the most important creatures in the Arctic. About 4mm long and almost transparent, with a single eye and fine red antennae running the length of its ...