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• Life Stage, Gender and Movement of Blue Crabs (Callinectis sapidus) in Lake Mattamuskeet and Connecting Canals

  Julia Chen Rinaldi, James Hench, M. Zachary Darnell, Matthew Kukurugya, Daniel Rittschof

  7-19

  
  Article ID: 1095
  355  (Abstract) 140  (Download)
  

  Abstract:

  In their ranges on east and south coasts of the Americas as well as their established invasions in the Adriatic and Baltic, blue crabs, Callinectis sapidus, inhabit estuaries, sounds and coastal oceans and are commercially and ecologically important. How crabs move in response to physical variables is important to management. We monitored life stages at canal control... More

  2019-10-31

• Mitochondrial Haplotypes suggest Genetic Component for Habitat Preference in Blue Crabs

  Megan N. Moran, Thomas F. Schulz, Daniel Rittschof

  32-40

  
  Article ID: 2438
  309  (Abstract) 120  (Download)
  

  Abstract:

  Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) are ecologically and commercially fundamental. Life stages are punctuated with migration. Adults and juveniles live in estuaries and sounds. Larval stages develop in the coastal ocean. Juvenile and adult crabs occupy habitats from high salinities to fresh water. We determined whether maturing juvenile and adult blue crab habitat use is... More

  2020-11-15