The giant freshwater prawn pjMacrobrachium rosenbergii is one of the best studied species in aquaculture. However, the transcriptional changes associated with embryonic development and the sexual diff
Spiroplasma eriocheiris is a crustacean pathogen, without a cell wall, that causes enormous economic loss. Macrobrachium rosenbergii hemocytes are the major targets during S. eriocheiris infection. As
Hermaphrodite systems offer unique opportunities to study sexual differentiation, due to their high degree of sexual plasticity and to the fact that, unlike gonochoristic systems, the process is not c
A Coleção de Crustacea do Museu Nacional/UFRJ é uma das maiores da América Latina e foi iniciada ainda no início do século XX, como resultado das coleções de Carlos Moreira, pesquisador alocado no Dep