Sentences with phrase «of isopod»

At 40 stations in the Southern Ocean, dragging a sled with a net through more than three acres of mud, Brandt found 674 species of isopod.

For all its scope, even the census won't be able to describe each species of isopod or polychaete that squirms in the deep - sea mud.

Not exact matches

He has also found two isopod species, popularly known as «roly - polys,» and one species of book louse.

Her specialty is isopods, segmented crustaceans that thrive in the deepest stretches of the ocean.

He handed the specimen off to world isopod experts Dr. Regina Wetzer, Associate Curator and Director of the Marine Biodiversity Center, and Adam Wall, Assistant Collections Manager for Crustacea at NHM.

In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods, isopods, and snails.

Another amazing case, and one difficult to explain in terms of its origin, is that of a small parasitic isopod around Taiwan which infects some fresh - water fish.

Adaptive latitudinal shifts in the thermal physiology of a terrestrial isopod.

From the producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise, the film is the next installment in their series following Insidious, and «chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay - an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts.

The main feeding habitat of the western Pacific subpopulation is the shallow (5 — 15 m (16 — 49 ft) depth) shelf off northeastern Sakhalin Island, particularly off the southern portion of Piltun Lagoon, where the main prey species appear to be amphipods and isopods.

While the isopod, a kind of louse, has been known to exist for a while now, discoveries of live specimens are rare.

The BBC reports that «Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.»

Wood decomposition rates also slowed; apparently, isopods can help counteract the effects of rising temperatures on the carbon stored in the world's forest soils.

But in soil samples with both cords and isopods, the team found, the mass of fungus matched that of control samples in which there were neither cords nor isopods.

Directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli of Paranormal Activity fame, the eco-thriller takes on the real - life, ever - awful isopod, shown below.

In the cautionary tale, massive amounts of steroid - rich chicken waste has been dumped into the water, causing the leech - like isopods to have mutated and move on from a taste for fish tongues to a taste for... human flesh.