... in a situation reminiscent of long-term potentiation in learning and memory. Dendraster excentricus Hydrodynamics Larval settlement Sensory ecology Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Surf zone Fluid mixing and the turbulent processes that underlie it are known to influence organism performance...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: siRNA transfection using RNAfectin at both nauplius VI and cyprid stages is effective in knocking down gene expression in barnacles. Transfection p38 MAPK RNA interference Amphibalanus amphitrite Larval settlement Barnacles are typical...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Barnacle Balanus amphitrite Larval settlement Gregarious settlement Cyprid larva Compound eyes Larval sense of vision Settlement cue Auto-fluorescence Visual signal Surface color Zooplankton Fales ( Fales, 1928 ) reported...

... ( [email protected] ; [email protected] ) 27 9 2012 13 11 2012 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 dimorphism Alderia desperate larva hypothesis larval settlement metamorphosis mollusc Planktonic larvae of marine invertebrates are under strong...

... the reception of exogenous signals and subsequent endogenous signal transduction. To investigate the involvement of nitric oxide (NO) and cyclic GMP (cGMP) during larval settlement of B. amphitrite , we examined the effects of an NO donor and an NO scavenger, two nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors...

... fatty acids, suggesting that these, rather than the mono-hydroxy fatty acid compounds, were the biologically active compounds( Song et al., 1990b ). Secondly, Knight et al. ( 2000 )demonstrated that the COX products, prostaglandins E 2 and E 3 , caused a dose-dependent inhibition of larval settlement...

... the effects of dimorphic development on chemosensory-mediated behavior. * e-mail: [email protected] 15 03 2000 10 05 2000 © 2000 by Company of Biologists 2000 dimorphism larval settlement metamorphosis swimming behavior Alderia modesta opisthobranch...