Copepod awesomesauce
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By , on October 5th, 2011 5 comments   Carnivals & Link Love, Organisms, Plankton   ,  

Check this out: That right there is one gorgeous copepod, one of the bigger and more important groups of planktonic crustaceans. It looks huge but is actually tiny; probably 1-2mm. This is what they normally look like on a light microscope: You can see how much richer and more detailed the top image is (although . . . → Read More: Copepod awesomesauce

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Got Gonad?
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By , on May 18th, 2009 2 comments   Mating & Reproduction, New Species, Organisms   , , , , , , ,  

In an upcoming paper I have in press with colleagues, we are describing 4 new species of Anemone form hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific. When taking thin sections to describe the histology of one species of Chondrophellia sp. nov. we found it chock full of ova! Photo of Chondrophellia sp nov at 100x. Containing . . . → Read More: Got Gonad?

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