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The speckled sea louse, Eurydice pulchra
This diminutive isopod crustacean, a predatory marine relative of the pill-bug, swarms in great numbers on surf beaches of NW Europe. Like many other inhabitants of the intertidal zones, Eurydice synchronises its biology to the 12.4h ebb and flow of the tides as well as the natural cycles of light and dark. Only recently are we beginning to dissect the molecular genetic basis of circatidal clocks in marine animals, and Eurydice is a key model in that endeavour. See Lin et al. Download October's cover page.
Image Credit: David Wilcockson
Citation: (2023) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 19(10) November 2023. PLoS Genet 19(10): ev19.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v19.i10
Published: November 15, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This diminutive isopod crustacean, a predatory marine relative of the pill-bug, swarms in great numbers on surf beaches of NW Europe. Like many other inhabitants of the intertidal zones, Eurydice synchronises its biology to the 12.4h ebb and flow of the tides as well as the natural cycles of light and dark. Only recently are we beginning to dissect the molecular genetic basis of circatidal clocks in marine animals, and Eurydice is a key model in that endeavour. See Lin et al. Download October's cover page.
Image Credit: David Wilcockson