While the venoms of some animal groups - including snakes, spiders, scorpions and insects - have already been quite well studied, the situation is entirely different for marine animal groups. Here, ...

Using a combination of field samples from the Norwegian Sea and a new method for analyzing sea life populations, researchers have shown that tiny marine crustaceans called copepods use cannibalism as ...

Hematodinium spp. are parasitic dinoflagellates that pose a serious threat to both wild and cultured crustacean populations across the globe. Infections by these pathogens are associated with ...

In the dark and cold of the months-long polar night, food resources are limited. Some groups of marine organisms in the polar regions overcome this challenge by going into a metabolic resting state in ...