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And those horseshoe crabs - they look like they're 40 million years old.

Maybe it was the dead fish, or even the horseshoe crab.

The same behavior can be seen in modern horseshoe crabs.

If they are kept moist, the horseshoe crab can live on land for many hours.

I wondered if you could put a price on watching horseshoe crabs with your children.

He said the new horseshoe crab regulations alone would not do in the bay men.

"The horseshoe crab is frightening to a lot of people," he said.

Perhaps this is why the horseshoe crabs developed the habit.

Indeed the horseshoe crabs are often considered to be living fossils.

Horseshoe crabs have two large compound eyes on the sides of its head.

All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group.

It is also present in early fossil representatives of horseshoe crabs.

The entire body of the horseshoe crab is protected by a hard shell.

The eyes of horseshoe crabs can detect movement but not form images.

The horseshoe crabs have been swimming in the Earth's waters for 400 million years.

For them, he said, the horseshoe crab dispute is not over any one species, but regulation in general.

"You could see the horseshoe crabs and sails," he said.

The Hook is a favorite site for the study of horseshoe crabs and other sea life.

The other three species are also called horseshoe crabs.

"A lot of species rely on the horseshoe crab," he said.

It is built to look like a horseshoe crab.

First, horseshoe crabs occupy a significant place in the ecological chain.

Estimating the total population of horseshoe crabs has proven difficult.

There were also the remains of horseshoe crabs that had washed up on the beach.

Once on the beach, the horseshoe crabs don't waste time.

The Japanese have always been able to buy live king crabs.

The red king crab is the most prized of the three for its meat.

King crabs had once been thought to be confined to cold waters.

Large numbers of king crab are also caught in Russian and international waters.

King crab is typically caught at the southern end of the continent.

There are at least two species of king crabs found in the coastal zone.

King Crab was thrown backwards, yet did not roll over.

Among the many animals that may be affected are king crabs and shrimp.

In Japan, an average of 120,000 larvae were released from each blue king crab.

The fisheries for most Alaskan king crab never even opened this year.

A friend ordered the king crab and lobster combo one night.

The series' first season was shot during the final year of the derby style king crab fishery.

The pot is then brought on board the boat and the crew sorts the king crab.

It was not the stringy, salty king crab I remembered.

Until recently, live king crabs rarely made it to the East Coast.

A few fish markets in the New York area sell live king crabs.

King Crab moved in again on his helpless victim.

The food is exquisite: try the ravioli stuffed with king crab.

Red king crabs prefer the sandy bottom of shallower water.

It tastes similar to the red and blue king crabs, though perhaps somewhat sweeter.

The government, he added, would do more to protect the king crab - and the local economy - by cracking down on poaching.

"Visually they look like giant king crabs, even though they're missing one set of legs.

Like the crabbers, I learned that king crab requires careful handling.

King crab, caviar, French wine and other items come for an extra fee.

Apparently, king crab fishing is both dangerous and stressful.

E. limulus was described in 1998.

To each tube, 25 l of reconstituted limulus amoebocyte lysate was added, before incubation for 35 minutes at 37 C.

Similarly, the limulus lysate test may be positive in meningitis caused by Gram-negative bacteria, but it is of limited use unless other tests have been unhelpful.

Eurycheilichthys limulus is a species of armored catfish endemic to Brazil where it is found in the upper Jacuí River basin.

Very low levels of LPS can cause coagulation of the limulus lysate due to a powerful amplification through an enzymatic cascade.

The habitat at the type locality of E. limulus is a small river about 3-5 metres wide with moderate water current, bottom comprising some rocks but mostly sand and a large amount of marginal vegetation.

The plasma was stored at -80 C until assayed for endotoxin using a modified limulus amoebocyte lysate assay (Coatest Endotoxin, Kabi Diagnostica, Molndal, Sweden).

We extracted the filters in phosphate triethylamine buffer (pH 7.5) and assayed the filter extracts for endotoxin levels using the kinetic limulus assay with resistant-parallel-line estimation (KLARE) method [ 16 17 ] .

Limulus polyphemus is the best-known of the four species.

He concentrated his studies on the eye of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

Easily the best known species is Limulus polyphemus of North America.

The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is not even a crab.

Among arthropods, a hemocyanin was early discovered in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus.

Atlantic horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, can be found all over the eastern coast of North America and Mexico.

The protein hemocyanin is the oxygen carrier in most mollusks and some arthropods such as the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

Limulus polyphemus is not presently endangered, but harvesting and habitat destruction have reduced its numbers at some locations and caused some concern for this animal's future.

We first meet the author on the shore of Delaware Bay, there to observe the mass mating of Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab.

The 'horseshoe crab' or 'Atlantic horseshoe crab' ('Limulus polyphemus') is a marine chelicerate arthropod.

Horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus A common visitor to Breezy Point, Rockaways, and Coney Island.

CRPs have also been sequenced in an invertebrate, Limulus polyphemus (Atlantic horseshoe crab), where they are a normal constituent of the hemolymph.

COCH: coagulation factor C homolog, cochlin (Limulus polyphemus)

Horseshoe Crab (Limulus Polyphemus) Appearance: dark toned exoskeleton (covers entire body) Horseshoe crabs have barely changed from their 300 million year old ancestors.

CNG channel homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and Limulus polyphemus have unknown functions.

For example, Barlow et al. developed a time-dependent model for the retina of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus on a Connection Machine (Model CM-2).

Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) is an aqueous extract of blood cells (amoebocytes) from the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus.

Both SAP and CRP are evolutionary conserved in all vertebrates and also found in distant invertebrates such as the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

He has edited "Limulus in the Limelight" (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001), a book about the species of crab found in North America, Limulus polyphemus.

While it is clear that the American horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus is distinct from the remaining extant species of horseshoe crab, relationships within the Asian horseshoe crabs remains uncertain.

Limulus amebocyte lysate, an aequous extract of amebocytes from the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), is commonly used in a test to detect bacterial endotoxins.

Horseshoe crabs (only 4 living species of the class Xiphosura, family Limulidae: Limulus polyphemus,Tachypleus gigas, Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda)

Horseshoe Crabs Our search for wild love ended on the city's watery edge, where we went to observe one of the world's most mysterious rites of spring: the annual mating of the horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus).

The biology, ecology and breeding patterns of C. rotundicauda and the two other Asian horseshoe crab species, Tachypleus gigas and Tachypleus tridentatus, have not been as well documented as those of the North American species Limulus polyphemus.