A mid-Atlantic study of the movement patterns and population distribution of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)

A mid-Atlantic study of the movement patterns and population distribution of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)

In conjunction with Cambrex, a biomedical company that utilizes horseshoe crabs for the production of Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL), a study was conducted to investigate movement patterns and population distributions of horseshoe crabs to increase understanding of mid-Atlantic horseshoe crab popul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grogan, Whitney Nicole
Other Authors: Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
spawning survey
horseshoe crab
Limulus polyphemus
stock structure
trawl survey
movement
mark-recapture
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36327
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12202004-143419/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36327
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12202004-143419/

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