Friday, March 27, 2009

A Few Bathynomus Resources

Resources:
Giant Isopods Ate My Well-Known Brand of Corn Chip
(Song from forthcoming CD "Songs About Giant Isopods" with entertaining music video)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
While I know it is somewhat risque to cite Wikipedia, it has many useful facts and an interesting insight into how the general public views our crustaceous friends.
http://blogs.discovery.com/deep_sea_news/2007/04/from-the-desk-o.html

Very nice, quick overview of the Bathynomus with fun photo illustration.

Guide to the marine isopod crustaceans of the Caribbean

Books I found from a public library. I have not actually read them, as I don't speak German, but they could be useful to the industrious Bathynomus scholar.

Verhaltensstudien am Grauen Riesenkänguruh, Macropus (Macropus) giganteus : Gefangenschaftsbeobachtung

Die 23S-ribosomale [S-ribosomale] RNS, ein phylogenetischer Marker Klonierung und Sequenzierung von 23S-rRNS-Genen aus "Deinonema spec.", Herpetosiphon giganteus und Flexithrix dorotheae

Transformation von Aspergillus giganteus und molekulargenetische Charakterisierung sekretierter, cytotoxischer Proteine

And for those with a greater love for bats than Bathynomi:
The rhythmically active metacarpal bat vein as a model for the study of venous smooth muscle function and peripheral autoregulatory flow mechanisms


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