| assessment of predation risk through conspecific alarm odors by spiny lobsters: how much is too much? | strong "alarm odors" emanating from lethally injured conspecifics may indicate an imminent risk of predation to spiny lobsters. in laboratory trials,1 strong conspecific alarm odors elicited avoidance in panulirus argus, a highly gregarious species that displays collective defense behavior, but not in panulirus guttatus, a species that tends to aggregate when reproductive activity is high (spring) but not when it is low (late summer) and does not display collective defensive behavior. to reduce ... | 2009 | 19721871 |
| isolation and characterization of eight polymorphic microsatellites for the spotted spiny lobster, panulirus guttatus. | microsatellite sequences were isolated from enriched genomic libraries of the spotted spiny lobster, panulirus guttatus using 454 pyrosequencing. twenty-nine previously developed polymerase chain reaction primer pairs of panulirus argus microsatellite loci were also tested for cross-species amplification in panulirus guttatus. in total, eight consistently amplifying, and polymorphic loci were characterized for 57 individuals collected in the florida keys and bermuda. the number of alleles per lo ... | 2016 | 26855853 |