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Adaptations Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp

Kevin Zelnio April 1, 2010 Alvinocarididae Best of Zelnio Black Smoker Hydrothermal Vent Infrared Mid-Atlantic Ridge Radiation Retina Rhodopsin Rimicaris exoculata Shrimp vision

*Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with…

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New Research New Species Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species

Kevin Zelnio August 20, 2009 Alvinocarididae Alvinocaris Alvinocaris komaii Back-Arc Basin Best of Zelnio COI Eastern Lau Spreading Center ELSC fiji Genetics Hydrothermal Vent Lau Basin Morphology Shrimp Systematics taxonomy Tomoyuki Komai

Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in…

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Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

New Paper Teaser

Kevin Zelnio February 19, 2009 Alvinocarididae Alvinocaris Crustacea Hydrothermal Vent Shrimp Wordle

I just sent in the proofs to a paper that will come out in the next issue of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of…

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