Passenger for millenniums: association between stenothermic microcrustacean and suctorian epibiont - the case of Eurytemora lacustris and Tokophyra sp

Abstract Epibionts often colonize the exoskeleton of crustaceans, which sometimes results in the development of a long-term relationship between them. Our present work confirmed that a specific epibiont is closely associated with the pelagic calanoid copepod Eurytemora lacustris, regardless of the r...

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Main Authors: Łukasz Sługocki, Maciej Karpowicz, Agnieszka Kaczmarczyk-Ziemba, Joanna Kozłowska, Ingvar Spikkeland, Jens Petter Nilssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66730-2