Central Terminal for Crustacean Neuroscience
The creation of this page was initiated at the
1995 Neuroethology Conference in Cambridge. I try to keep the
"dancing baloney" to a minimum with a mostly text based
interface. The most recent pruning of "list rot" was
on 00/02/10. Please let me know if you encounter any remaining
dead links. Ideas, criticisms, suggestions - all welcome at:
lobsterman at caspar dot bgsu dot edu
Starting Points
- Here you find a general introduction to the arthropods
and a figure detailing their general
morphology\
- More info on arthropods
from the Loretto
Zoology Web Site with information on crayfish: external
form, internal
structures, nervous
system, circulatory
system, digestive
and excretory system, and reproductive
system
- Phylogenetic position of arthropods,
and crustaceans
on the Tree
of Life
- This course material offers a wonderful introduction to crayfish
anatomy
- Comprehensive lists of neuroscience links are at Neurosciences
on the Internet
- Extensive collections of behavior links are at Internet
Animal Behavior
- Books as starting points: - any other recommendations?
- Unravelling Animal behavior Marian Stamp Dawkins,
2nd edition, Longman Group, London 1995
- Basic Neurochemistry George J. Siegel et al., 5th
edition, Raven Press, New York, 1993
- The
Crayfish: An Introduction to Zoology, 1879, by T. H.
Huxley
General Introduction to Crustacean Neuroscience
This page on Crustacean Neuroscience explicit focuses on integrating
behavioral research with other sub-disciplines of the neurosciences.
We strongly believe that the primary goal of neuroscience research
is to offer a mechanistic understanding of whole organism behavior,
with analyses bridging levels of individual molecules, cells,
circuits, and behavior.
Special Announcements
Research and Future Perspectives of Different Labs
If you send me a 2-3 sentence description of research interests
then I'd be happy to include you in this list.
Behavior/Sensory Biology
- Daniel K. Hartline
* Studies on ecological adaptations of sensory systems using
copepod mechano- and chemoreception as a model
* Studies on basic physiology of calanoid mechanosensors
* Collaborative projects on predator-evasion behavior, including
bioluminescence
Affiliation: Bekesy Lab., Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
96822
Internet: WWW: Daniel
K. Hartline lab www page, Email: danh@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
or danh@wana.pbrc.hawaii.edu
- Charles D. Derby
* Chemosensory biology of aquatic crusteans
* Mechanisms of neural processing of odorant mixtures
Affiliation: Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University,
P. O. Box 4010, Atlanta, GA 30302-4010
Tel: Office: (404) 651-3058, Lab: (404) 651-1646, Fax: (404)
651-2509
Internet: WWW: Derby
lab www page, Email: cderby@gsu.edu
- Paul A. Moore
* Sensory Ecology of Crustaceans
* Odor dispersion and orientation behavior of decapod crustaceans
* Role of odors in social and mating behavior of crayfish
Affiliation: Laboratory for Sensory Ecology, Department
of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, OH 43403
Tel: Office: USA (419) 372-8556, Lab: USA (419) 372-0570, Fax:
USA (419) 372-2024
Internet: WWW: Paul
Moore www page, Email: pmoore@bgnet.bgsu.edu
- David W. Dunham
* Communication systems in decapod crustaceans
* Sensory ecology of communication
* Information theoretic analysis of communication
Affiliation: University of Toronto, Graduate Department
of Zoology, Canada M5S 3G5
Tel: Office: CANADA (416) 978-3496, Fax: CANADA (416) 978-8532
Internet: WWW: David
Dunham www page, Email: dunham@zoo.utoronto.ca
- Barbara Schmitz
* Acoustic, hydrodynamic and chemical signals in snapping shrimp
* Mechanosensory systems in crayfish
* Antennal movements in spiny lobsters
* Processing of water movements in crabs
Affiliation: Institut und Lehrstuhl fuer Zoologie, Technische
Universitaet Muenchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
Tel: Office: GERMANY (89) 289-13666, Fax: GERMANY (89) 289-13674
Internet: WWW: Barbara
Schmitz WWW Page, Email: Barbara.Schmitz@bio.tum.de
Associates: Jens Herberholz
- Marc Weissburg
* Sensory ecology, anatomy, physiology and behavior of crustacean
chemo- and mechanoperception
* sex-specificity in fiddler crab chemosensory systems
* orientation behavior in different fluid mechanical regimes
Affiliation: School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology,
310 Ferst Ave., Atlanta, GA 30332-0230
Tel: Office: USA (404) 894-8433, Fax: USA (404) 894-0519
Internet: WWW: Marc
Weissburg www page, Email: marc.weissburg@biology.gatech.edu
- Ann Jane Tierney
* Crayfish behavior and physiology
* Role of 5-HT and 5-HT receptor subtypes in mediating posture
and aggression
* Distribution and function of FMRFamide and 5-HT in the crayfish
stomatogastric nervous system
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Colgate University,
Hamilton NY 13346
Tel: Office: USA (315) 228-7360, Fax: USA (315) 228-7942
Internet: WWW: WWW
page, Email: atierney@mail.colgate.edu
- Thomas Breithaupt
* Olfaction and aggression
* Social communication
Affiliation: The University of Hull, Department of Biological
Sciences, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Tel: Office: UK (0)1482-465924, Fax: UK (0)1482-465458
Internet: WWW: WWW
page, Email: T.Breithaupt@hull.ac.uk
- Assaf Barki
* Aggressive and reproductive behavior in crustaceans
* Crustacean reproduction
* Hormones and behavior in decapod crustaceans
Affiliation: Department of Aquaculture, Institute of Animal
Science, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center,
P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Tel: Isreal (0) 3 9683388, Fax: Isreal (0) 3 9605667
Internet: WWW: WWW
page, Email: barkia@volcani.agri.gov.il
Neuroethology
- Joseph Ayers
* Neuroethology of Investigative Behavior
* Neurophysiology of Locomotion
* Neurotechnology
for Lobster Based Underwater Robots
* Development of Feeding in Larval Lobsters
* Sonar Telemetry from Freely Behaving Lobsters
* Biomimetic Underwater
Robot Program
*(An Undulatory
Robot, Limb
Coordination During Omnidirectional Walking in the Lobster,
Sonar
Biotelemetry of Lobster Motor Programs, In
Vivo Recording During Behavior, ColorImage)
Affiliation: Marine Science Center, Northeastern University,
East Point, Nahant, MA 01908
Tel: Office: (781) 581-7370, Fax: (781) 581-6076, Cell: (781)
755-7523
Internet: WWW: Marine
Science Center WWW Page, Email: lobster@neu.edu
Associates: Al Badger, Don Massa, Lars
Schlichting
- Robert Huber
* Correlative Studies of Aggression and Biogenic Amine Function/Amine
Levels
* Pharmacological Manipulation of Biogenic Amines and resulting
Changes in Behavior
Affiliation: Bowling Green State University, Biological
Sciences, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
Tel: USA (419) 372-0341 (office)
Fax: USA (419) 372-2024
Internet: WWW: Robert Huber www page, ftp: Robert
Huber ftp server, Email: lobsterman at caspar dot bgsu dot edu
- Frank Krasne
* crayfish escape behavior: organization of neural circuitry
for behavior. plasticity and modulation.
Affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Brain Research Institute,
UCLA
Tel: USA (310) 825 2497
Fax:
Internet: Email: Krasne@psych.ucla.edu
Associates: Terri Teshiba and Ari Berkowitz
- Tom Nolen
* neuroethology of predator-prey interactions
* role of chemoreception in responses of Cancer to the
aversive ink of Aplysia
* effects of Aplysia ink on Cancer feeding behavior
Affiliation: Dept. of Biology and Marine Science Program
and Neuroscience Program P.O. Box 249118, Univ. of Miami, Coral
Gables, FL 33124
Tel: USA (305) 284-6206 (office/lab)
Fax: USA (305) 284-3039
Internet: WWW: Tom
Nolen, Email: tnolen@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Associates: Bruce Carlson (bcarlson@students.miami.edu)
- Donald H. Edwards
* The effect of monoamines and social status on sensorimotor
integration
* Neural mechanisms of behavioral choice
* The effect of neuronal growth on neuronal integration
Affiliation: Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University,
P. O. Box 4010,
Atlanta, GA 30302-4010
Tel: USA (404) 651-3148 (office), 651-1645 (lab)
Fax: USA (404) 651-2509
Internet: WWW: Edwards
Homepage, Email: dedwards@panther.gsu.edu
- Brian Mulloney
* Cellular basis of natural behaviors, particularly locomotion
* Neural mechanisms of behavioral decisions
Affiliation: Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and
Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8519,
USA
Tel: USA (530) 752-1110 (office)
Fax: USA (530) 752-5582
Internet: WWW: Brian
Mulloney www page, Email: bcmulloney@ucdavis.edu
Neurophysiology/Neuroanatomy/Molecular biology
- Edward A. Kravitz
* Neurobiology of Aggression
Affiliation: George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115,
USA
Tel: USA (617) 432-1753
Fax: 617-734-7557
Internet: www: Ed
Kravitz lab, Email: edward_kravitz@hms.harvard.edu
Associates: Henning Schneider, Christine Couture
- William J. Heitler
* Rhythm generation and intersegmental coordination in the swimmeret
system
* Functional and evolutionary relationship between the swimmeret
system and the giant fibre escape system
* Electrical synapses, their voltage dependence and functional
modulation
Affiliation: The Gatty Marine Laboratory, Univ. St. Andrews,
Fife, Scotland
Internet: Email: wjh@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Robin L. Cooper
* neurophysiology and anatomical studies of sensory/motor systems
Affiliation: Sch. of Biological Sciences, Div. of Organismal
& Integrative Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY 40506-0225, USA
Tel: USA (606) 257-5950
Fax: USA (607) 257-1717
Internet: WWW: Robin
Cooper's www page, Email: RLCOOP1@pop.uky.edu
- Jay Blundon
* synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticities and axon terminal
biophysics
using the crayfish neuromuscular junction as a model
Affiliation: Dept. Biology, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
38112, USA
Tel: USA (901) 843-3562
Fax: USA (901) 843-3565
Internet: WWW: Jay
Blundon's www page, Email: blundon@rhodes.edu
Associates: George Bittner, Malcolm Brodwick, C.K. Govind,
Sterling Wright
- A. Joffre Mercier
* Neuropeptides in crustaceans
* Effects of polyamine toxins on arthropod glutamate receptors
Affiliation: Brock University
Internet: WWW: Joffre
Mercier's www page, Email: amercier@Spartan.ac.BrockU.CA
- DeForest Mellon, Jr.
* Neuroethology of sensory reception
* Functional organization of olfactory systems
Affiliation: Department of Biology, Gilmer Hall, University
of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Tel: USA (804) 982-5766
Fax: USA (804) 982-5626
Internet: WWW: www
page, Email: dm6d@virginia.edu
- Harold Atwood
* Analysis of synaptic structure and function
* Comparative properties of different motor neurons (phasic and
tonic)
* Long-term and short-term synaptic plasticity (frequency facilitation,
long-term facilitation)
* Comparison of crustacean and Drosophila motor systems
* Quantal and optical analysis of synaptic transmission
Affiliation: University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine,
Physiology, Medical Sciences Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 1A8
Tel: Canada (416) 978-2899
Fax: Canada (416) 978-4940
Internet: WWW: Atwood
lab www page, Email: harold@spine.med.utoronto.ca
- Jerrel L. Wilkens
* Crustacean respiratory and cardiovascular physiology
* E-C coupling in crustacean cardiac muscles
* Analysis of hemodynamics of hearts and properties of arterial
systems
* Effects of excercise on lobster cardio-respiratory system
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University
of Calgary, Canada
Tel: Canada (403) 220-3552
Fax: Canada (403) 289-9311
Internet: WWW: Wilkens's
www page, Email: wilkens@ucalgary.ca
Associates:
Akira Sakurai
- Werner Rathmayer
* properties of invertebrate muscles
* Role of pre-and postsynaptic inhibition in the control of muscle
performance
* Pharmacological characterization of different GABA-receptors
* Neuromodulation of muscle contractions and at the neuromuscular
junction
Affiliation: Fakultät f. Biologie, Universität
Konstanz PF 5560, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Tel: Germany (7531) 882-238 (office)
Fax: Germany (7531) 883-894
Internet: WWW: Rathmayer
lab www page, Email: Werner.Rathmayer@uni-konstanz.de
Associates:
Sabine Kreissl, Torsten
Weiss
- Deborah Jean Baro
* long and short term modulation of cellular phenotypes by extracellular
signals
* molecular mechanisms mediating dominance hierarchies
* subcellular localization of channels and receptors
Affiliation: Institute of Neurobiology, University of
Puerto Rico, 201 Blvd. del Valle, San Juan, PR 00901
Tel: Puerto Rico (787) 724-2364 (office), Puerto Rico (787) 724-1543
(lab)
Fax:Puerto Rico (787) 725-3804
Internet: WWW: Baro
webpage, Email: djbaro@neurobio.upr.clu.edu
- Daniel Cattaert
* Sensori-motor integration in the walking system of the crayfish
* Organization of the walking neural network
* modulation of reflexes (reflex reversal) during walking activity
* Presynaptic inhibition in primary afferents of the walking
system
* synaptic plasticity in sensory-motor pathways inthe walking
system
Affiliation: Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS UMR
5816, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux, Biologie
Animale, Bât B2, Avenue des Facultés 33405 TALENCE
CEDEX, France
Tel: France (0) 5 57 96 25 67
Fax: France (0) 5 57 96 25 61
Internet: EMail: d.cattaert@lnr.u-bordeaux.fr
- María Luisa Fanjul Moles
* Studies on the ontogeny of circadian rhythms in crayfish
* Photoperiodic induction of sexual development in crayfish
* Comparative studies on photo-oxidative stress in mexican
and introduced species of crayfish
Affiliation: Lab.de Neurofisiología Comparada,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Tel: Office: Mexico (015) 56224839, Fax: Mexico (015) 56224828
Internet: WWW: WWW
Page, Email: mfajul@netmex.com
- Ernest S. Chang
* molecular and biochemical endocrinology of molting, reproduction,
and behavior in decapod crustaceans (especially Homarus)
Affiliation: University of California, Bodega Marine Laboratory,
PO Box 247, Bodega Bay, CA 94923
Tel: USA (707) 875-2061
Fax: USA (707) 875-2009
Internet: WWW: Ernest
Chang's personal www page, Email: eschang@ucdavis.edu
- Robert Huber
* quantify levels of biogenic amines, amino acids and amine metabolites
in nervous tissue, haemolymph and urine using HPLC
* studies of amine metabolism, rates and sites of inactivation,
metabolic pathways, identification of urine metabolites
Affiliation: Bowling Green State University, Biological
Sciences, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
Tel: USA (419) 372-0341 (office)
Fax: USA (419) 372-2024
Internet: WWW: Robert Huber www page, ftp: Robert
Huber ftp server, Email: lobsterman at caspar dot bgsu dot edu
Neural nets
- Daniel K. Hartline
* Studies on integration in neural networks, using stomatogastric
ganglion as a model system
* Emphasis on quantitative experimental approaches and utilization
of modeling techniques as a research tool
* Specific interests in cellular properties and their spatial
distribution (e.g. plateau potentials), chemotonic (non-spiking)
synaptic transmission, and modulatory reprogramming of networks
Affiliation: Bekesy Lab., Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
96822, USA
Internet: WWW: Daniel
K. Hartline lab www page, Email: danh@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
or danh@wana.pbrc.hawaii.edu
- Brian Mulloney
* Neural coordination of limbs on different segments, particularly
of swimmeret beating
* Motor pattern-generation and circuit dynamics
Affiliation: Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and
Behavior, University of California, Davis, One Shields Drive,
Davis, CA 95616-8519, USA
Tel: USA (530) 752-1110 (office)
Fax: USA (530) 752-5582
Internet: WWW: Brian
Mulloney www page, Email: bcmulloney@ucdavis.edu
- Allan Berlind
* pattern generation by the cardiac ganglion
* neurohumoral regulation of the cardiac ganglion
Affiliation: Biology Dept. and Neuroscience Program, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA
Tel: USA (860) 685-3483
Fax: USA (860) 685-2141
Internet: WWW: Allan
Berlind www page, Email: aberlind@wesleyan.edu
- Ronald M. Harris-Warrick
* Studies on neural networks, using the spiny lobster stomatogastric
ganglion (STG) as a system
* Study of potassium channels and the effect of specific currents
on the output of the whole network
Affiliation: Section Neurobiology and Behavior, W159 Seeley
G. Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Tel: Office: USA (607) 254-4355, Lab: USA (607) 254-4357, Fax:
USA (607) 254-4308
Internet: WWW: WWW
Page, Email: rmh4@cornell.edu
Associates: Bruce Johnson <brj1@cornell.edu>;
Peter Kloppenburg <pk29@cornell.edu>;
Jason MacLean <jm122@cornell.edu>;
Matthias Gruhn <mkg23@cornell.edu>
Stomatogastric System
(These are links to the master
list of researchers working on the stomatogastric ganglion
maintained by Dan Hartline)
Search the databases for related information
Further crustacean/neuro/behavior resources
Crustacean Information
- General Info:
- Taxonomy
- Molecular Biology:
- Simulated Behavior:
- Neurobiology:
- Behavior/Ecology:
- Newsletters: Amphipod
Newsletter
- Keys: Lower
Crustacea and Cirripedia, The
Lower Malacostraca (Peracarida), The
Higher Malacostraca (Decapoda and Stomatopoda)
- Lists: endangered
crustaceans, freshwater
and marine isopods, crustaceans
of Montana, annotated list of decapod
crustaceans, poisonous
crabs
- Collections: Info on collections is available for
the Department
of Invertebrate Biology at the Smithsonean, the Texas
Natural History Collections, the catalogue
of type specimens of Crustacea of the Invertebrate Collection
of the Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia - INPA (National Institute
for Amazonian Research), Manaus (AM) - BRAZIL
- Internet Lists: There are discussion groups on crustaceans
(CRUST-L)
and brine shrimp (BRINE-L).
- Books: Several fisheries related books are available
at Fishing News Books,
eg. crabs
and lobster fishing, Spiny
Lobster Management, A
Living from Lobsters, The
Edible Crab and its Fishery in British Waters, The
Crayfish Its Nature And Nurture, or Crustacean
Farming
- CD-ROMS: A CD-Rom on Lobsters
of the World, AQUALEX Multimedia
Consortium
Teaching
- Course Materials: Neuroethology
at BGSU, Animal Behavior at
BGSU, Neuroethology,
Neuroethology,
Comparative
Neurobiology, CNS
Pharmacology, Crawdad
Project Page, and Crawdad
Teaching Workshop
- Pictures and Photos: Check out general
fisheries related wallcharts, eg.a crabs
and lobsters wallchart of Fishing
News Books,
photos of crusties are found at the Crayfish
Gallery, the Crayfish
Burrow, the Crayfish Photo galery, photos of Lyphozozymus
pictor, Watch a lobster
guarding its burrow from an ROV, Greg Carter's Gallery
of aquatic Images, Live
LobsterCam
Scientific Community
- Institutions: The
Lobster Institute has info on various subjects dealing with
lobsters;
- lobster rearing facility at the New
England Aquarium
- Department
of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian
Institution
- Lobster
Institute of the Univ. Maine
- Oceanic resource Foundation
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- Societies: The
Crustacean Society, Soc.
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Int.
Soc. Neuroethology, Soc. Neuroscience,
Animal
Behavior Society, Italian
Malacological Society
- Journals: online are: Canadian
Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Shrimp
News, Invertebrate
Neuroscience, HMS Beagle
- Lists of Conferences and Meetings can be found at
Biosis,
Nature, the Virtual
Library, and Yahoo
- Creepy, crawly, crusty people: Dean
Pentcheff, Zimmer-Faust
Lab, Katherine
Graubard, Ron
Calabrese, Jeff
Shields, Keith
Crandall, Sifford
Pearre, Josh
Hayes, Terry Viancour,
Eve Marder,
Dan Hartline,
Jim
Culter, Ernest
Chang, Gary Anderson,
Peter
Rowat, Thom
Cleland, Chris
Hempel, Mike
Casey, Emilio
Salinas, Ole
Jensen, Niel
Bruce, Alastair
Richardson, Kenneth
Browne, Bernard
Picton, Susan
Bell, Larry
Field, William
Hayes, Allen
Selverston, Wulf
Krenz, Kurt
Fiedler, Richard
Olivo, Zen Faulkes,
Akira
Sakurai, and myself
- Southamerican
crusty people
Further lists of crustacean links are at Zoological
Records
Related pages in other taxa
Methods and technical resources
Some Other/Weird/Wacky Crustacean Stuff
- You would not believe what grows
on lobster lips
- Check out a wealth of fish,
lobster and crab trivia
- Watch the Hickory
Crawdads play baseball
- Buy a Lobster
Penis "complete with exoskeleton. Small but fully functional"
Quantities are limited, so hurry! - I guess all items are sold
now
- The Sounds and Sights from Lobsterman
from Mars
- Order special lobster
bands at www.peinet.pe.ca
- A lobster recipe - to mellow out guests and the lobster to
be eaten - Instructions for cooking lobsters in
boiling water containing Prozac - they'll die happy (the
lobster that is)
- See a 35 foot, 55 ton lobster at The
Lobster Capital of the World, visit the Maine
Lobster Festival or the Pictou
Lobster Carnival.
- Enforcement officials have now a
simple method of detecting scrubbed lobsters
- Order lobsters at Weathervane,
The
Lobster Connection, Maine
Lobster Direct, Bayley's
Lobster Pound, Lobster
and Seafood, Port
Lobster Company, Lobsternet,
Ocean Gold,
Sur'fin' Lobster,
Fisherman's
Market International Inc., New
England Lobster, The
lobster man
- Lobster recipes are here,
here, here,
crayfish recipes are here,
and here you find instruction on how
to eat a lobster
Thanks
- Many thanks to all of you who forward info and crustacean
links for inclusion in this page.
last modified: 4/4/03