Effect of prolonged starvation on body weight and blood-chemistry in two horseshoe crab species: Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Chelicerata: Xiphosura)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 395, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 112-119

  Hu, Menghong ^a   Wang, Youji ^a   Tsang, Sau Ting ^a   Cheung, Siu Gin ^a   Shin, Paul K S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blood chemistry; Body weight; Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda; Horseshoe crab; Starvation; Tachypleus tridentatus

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; CARCINOSCORPIUS ROTUNDICAUDA; CHELICERATA; LIMULUS; MEROSTOMATA; TACHYPLEUS TRIDENTATUS; XIPHOSURA;

EID: 77957901841     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.08.023     Document Type: Article

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