Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, one more joins their ranks as researchers at the University of Cambridge, ...

Global demand for food is increasing. To meet this need, aquaculture has also expanded and is forecast to produce 60% of all ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Copepods, the most abundant metazoan zooplankters, underpin aquatic food webs and drive biogeochemical cycles in marine and freshwater environments. Traditional morphology-based classification has ...

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 ...