Astacus


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Related to Astacus: European crayfish, Noble crayfish
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Noun1.Astacus - type genus of the family AstacidaeAstacus - type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
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Characterization of proteinase classes in langostilla (Pleuroncodes planipes) and crayfish (Pacifastacus astacus) extracts.
In early work, studies based on transcriptome scan have also discovered adaptively important candidate genes and genomic regions in non-model aquatic species including Astacus astacus (Theissinger et al., 2014), Eriocheir sinensis (Li et al., 2014), Nibea albiflora (Zhan et al., 2016) and Procambarus clarkii (Du et al., 2016).
Ultra pure deionised water with a resistivity of 18.2 Ma| cm, was obtained from a MembraPure Astacus water purification system (MembraPure GmbH, Bodenheim, Germany).
Ultrastructural and functional characterization of circulating hemocytes from the freshwater crayfish Astacus leptodactylus: cell types and their role after in vivo artificial non-self challenge.
[15.] Grimm C, Lehmann K, Brendelberger B, Clemmesen C (2013) RNA/DNA ratio is an early responding, accurate performance parameter in growth experiments of noble crayfish Astacus astacus (L.) Aquaculture Res 46: 1937-1945.
Crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus) is one of the most preferable crustacean species in terms of its nutritional quality.
Spring % W Spring % FO Summer % W Summer % FO Zooplankton Cladocera 0.09 5.00 1.76 28.57 Invertebrates Astacus astacus - - 1.44 14.29 Ephemeroptera 0.16 10.00 - - Trichoptera 0.47 10.00 3.20 14.29 Diptera 1.04 20.00 - - Total Invert.
The determination of the effect to shelf life of marinated crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus Esch., 1823) with rosemary and thyme essential oils additive.
Kerkut and Taylor (1958) observed similar behaviors in the crayfish Astacus astacus, which increased activity when the temperature dropped.