Induced metamorphosis in crustacean y-larvae: Towards a solution to a 100-year-old riddle

• Published in: BMC Biology
• Main Authors: Glenner, Henrik, Høeg, Jens T, Grygier, Mark J, Fujita, Yoshihisa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2008
• Subjects: Cell Biology; Developmental Biology; Plant Science; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Biotechnology; Arctic; The ''Y''
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-21; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1741-7007-6-21.pdf

Abstract Background The y-larva, a crustacean larval type first identified more than 100 years ago, has been found in marine plankton samples collected in the arctic, temperate and tropical regions of all oceans. The great species diversity found among y-larvae (we have identified more than 40 speci...