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Observations with the scanning electron microscope on a filamentous bacterium present on the aesthetasc setae of the brown shrimp Crangon crangon (L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. G. J. Shelton ,
P. M. J. Shelton  and
A. S. Edwards
R. G. J. Shelton
Affiliation:
DAFS Marine Laboratory, P.O. Box lot, Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB9 8DB
P. M. J. Shelton
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH
A. S. Edwards
Affiliation:
Gatty Marine Laboratory and Department of Natural History, Universtiy of St Andrews, Scotland
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In a previous paper, (Shelton, 1974) it was shown that the antennules and some other appendages of certain field and laboratory populations of the brown shrimp, Crangon crangon (L.), may become colonized by a filamentous organism tentatively identified as a blue-green alga. Other workers (Johnson et al., 1971) have described similar growths on benthic Crustacea, fish eggs and algae (Bland & Brock, 1973) and have identified the epizooic organism as Leucothrix mucor Oersted (Harold & Stanier, 1955), a filamentous, heterotrophic bacterium, common in the intertidal zone.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 795 - 800
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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