Work-related links:

• Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Society for Invertebrate Pathology
• American Microscopical Society
• Diseases of shellfish 
• National Shellfisheries Association For J. Shellfish Research
• American Society of Parasitologists
• NSF Fastlane

Diseases of Crustacea

• The "100 Lobsters Project" (Shields' research sites)
• Hematodinium (Also see Shields lab research and Publications)
• Diseases of Blue Crabs (see Publications for an extensive review published in 2007)
• Histological Atlas of Lobster Anatomy
• Parasitic Isopods of Crabs - old content
• Parasitic Dinoflagellates of Crustacea - old content
• Diagnosis of Bitter Crab Disease in Snow Crabs
• Hematodinium perezi, a parasitic dinoflagellate of blue crabs, plasmodia and the vegetative stage or trophont.
• An entoniscid isopod: female Cancrion australiense from the crab Thalamita sima
• The parasitic dinofagellate Blastodinium pruvoti from the copepod Clausocalanus furcatus

General info on Ocypodid crabs

• Pictures of a Ghost crab attempting to hide.
• Fiddler crabs in the marsh. Fiddler crab brochure for download.

Personal links:

• Pfiesteria research at VIMS
• CNN News
• Fletcher's Garden
• National parks and forests in Virginia
• Recreational saltwater fishing in Virginia
• Public Radio
• Hoenig's advice to prospective graduate students

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