Word: homarus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wendy A. Weiger '83, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School, is studying the roles of hormones in the dominance hierarchies of New England's favorite shellfish, Homarus americanus...
...hard enough on humans, but for Homarus americanus it can be deadly. As many as one-fourth of the Maine lobsters on flights to burgeoning markets in Asia die during the long trip, even though they travel in comfy insulated containers. A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem: a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific seawater for a day or so before...