How patterns of new host use develop in copepods is largely unknown. We are studying the life cycle of sea lice, a prevalent and devastating threat to commercial aquaculture worldwide. Whenever new ...

Their life cycle includes several stages, starting with a larval phase where they burrow into their host's skin. The copepods carry sacs containing hundreds of eggs, which they keep attached to ...

Copepod parasites such as Lophoura szidati undergo a multi-stage life cycle that starts from microscopic larvae. These larvae infect their host’s skin and transform, developing holdfast ...

To test the hypothesis that the sex ratio of the copepod Acartia tonsa is biased at birth, adult sex ratios of the offspring of families (21 families in 2011 and 72 in 2013) produced by field-caught ...