Sentences with phrase «by copepods»
«They could easily be ingested by arctic microorganisms like ciliates, but also by copepods,» Ilka Peeken, a biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute who led the study, said in a statement.
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A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.
«Which is in turn is consumed by zooplankton, copepods or krill.
Researchers must understand their subjects only by glimpses, bodies on beaches, orby what RV Shearwater is doing today, which is taking samples of water, squirting them with formaldehyde, then analyzing how rich the water is in copepods and what that means for the reproduction, health, and survival of the right whale.
The dangling fluorescent red lures may resemble copepods (tiny relatives of shrimps) eaten by some deep - sea fish, the team reports 8 July in Science.