Encystment Discovered in a Marine Copepod
- 17 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 212 (4492), 342-344
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.212.4492.342
Abstract
It has been believed that marine crustacea do not encyst as adults. The benthic copepod Heteropsyllus nunni has been found to encyst in intertidal sands in the summer; free-living forms are abundant in the winter. A unique platelike structure on the cephalothorax is thought to be the site of cyst formation.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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