Sentences with phrase «blue crab larvae»

One team, led by population ecologist Caroline Taylor of Tulane University in New Orleans, first found mysterious yellow - orange droplets in May while collecting blue crab larvae off Grand Isle, Louisiana.

Perry suspects that the numbers of blue crab larvae, which spawn in open waters 15 - 150 kilometers offshore, will drop because of their exposure.

She peers into the microscope and reveals a blue crab larva (Callinectes sapidus), about the size of a pinhead, with droplets of dispersed oil wedged between its skin and outer shell.

Not exact matches

We know that biologists have found traces of oil and dispersant in the larvae of blue crabs, revealing that those dispersants had broken down the oil to a size where it could more easily enter the food chain.