Zooplankton Sensory & Motor Research Programs

(Updated March 13, 2000)

INDEX

Vision and bioluminescence: Edie Widder & Tammy Frank: (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution)

Equilibrium: physiology Bernd Budelmann (Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston)

Chemoreception and mate-recognition: Darcy Lonsdale and Terry Snell .
Mechanoreception & neuroecology: Petra Lenz & Dan Hartline (Univ. of Hawaii). Neurobiology of hydrodynamically-triggered predator-evasion behavior: ecological and evolutionary correlates.
Morphology: Tina Weatherby: SEM and TEM studies of calanoid first antennae. Web pages include several micrographs of copepod sensory structures
Photoreception: Edward Buskey (Univ. of Texas, Austin). Behavioral ecology, especially predator-prey interactions and the role of vision/photoreception; Swarming; Bioluminescence
Sensory perception: Jeannette Yen, (State Univ. of NY, Stony Brook). Feeding ecology, functional morphology and behavior, signal characteristics. On-line abstract : "Advertisement and Concealment in the Plankton: What makes a copepod hydrodynamically conspicuous?"

Behavior and ecology of Siphonophores and Appendicularians: Marsh Youngbluth (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution)

Orientation, migration and settling behavior in oyster larvae: Zimmer-Faust group (UCLA)

Orientation, migration and settling behavior in crab larvae: Zimmer-Faust group (UCLA)