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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The brine shrimp, Artemia salina, is easy to store as dry eggs, which can be hatched and grown in the lab for experimental use. It is found in high salinity systems. It is sometimes reinterpreted as a “brain shrimp”; from the picture above you can see that it does have a penetrating gaze. They were once advertised in comic books as “sea monkeys”, so they were sold as being above-average in smarts. Some of the substitutions in the examples are clearly “brain errors” though.
Antibacterial activity of a sponge extract
Toxicity of the methanolic extract was evaluated by Brain Shrimp Lethality test.
(http://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=jbs.2009.224.230)
Nucleic acid structures (European Journal of Biochemistry, 1976)
The mRNA of the brain shrimp Artemia salina has two types of blocked methylated 5’-terminal structures
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour … 1&SRETRY=0)
WTF error in references
Sorgeloos, 1980 Sorgeloos, P., 1980. The use of brine shrimp Artemia in aquaculture. In: Persoone, G., Sorgeloos, P., Roels, O., Jaspers, E. (Eds.), The brain shrimp Artemia. Universa, Wetteren, Belgium, p. 456.
Here’s a picture of another sort of “brain shrimp”, where the “brain” is helpfully highlighted – only it is clearly some other sort of internal organ. What little brain they might have is attached to the eyes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27482962@N00/346559881
Comment: Great! You did a wonderful job with this difficult subject.
Hey, there’s more brain there than I would have expected. O)
Coppertane Pro User says:
whos brain you’re refering too ?
;-p, joking
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