This study is among the first to provide field evidence of microplastic transfer along marine planktonic food chains. Further comparison between chaetognaths and copepods demonstrated that the ...

One suspect in the disappearance of cod and other groundfish is the food source for their young: a planktonic copepod crustacean. The first transcriptome for the key North Atlantic copepod Calanus ...

Shelf Sci. 52: 543–553. doi:10.1006/ ecss.2001.0776 Frost, B. W. 1972. Effects of size and concentration of food particles on the feeding behavior of the marine planktonic copepod Calanus pacificus.

Caption One suspect in the disappearance of cod and other groundfish is the food source for their young: a planktonic copepod crustacean, no larger than a grain of rice. Researchers at the ...

Limnol. Oceanogr. 43: 1932–1937. HANSEN, B., AND G. BECH. 1996. Bacteria associated with a marine planktonic copepod in culture. I. Bacterial genera in seawater, body surface, intestines and fecal ...

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 ...