Asellus aquaticus

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Meredith Protas UC Berkeley
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i5K Comments for Asellus aquaticus
Asellus aquaticus is a very common isopod crustacean in Europe. It can be found in many surface habitats: brooks, rivers, ponds, and lakes and can also be found in caves. Some of the cave forms have many interesting morphological differences including reduced eyes, reduced pigment, and elongated appendages. Asellus aquaticus is an excellent system for studying systematics and phylogeography as well as the genetic basis of morphological traits. A linkage map and several hundred markers have been generated for this system and transcriptome sequencing is underway. This species is also being raised in the lab and material for sequencing would be easy to obtain. In addition, Asellus aquaticus is commonly used in ecotoxicological studies investigating the effects of pesticides and other chemicals and therefore has agricultural and ecological importance. Meredith Protas

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Taxonomic classification
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Asellidae
Genus: Asellus
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 92525
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