This chapter provides a background to research on Northern krill biology, starting with a description of its morphology and identifying features, and the historical path to its eventual position as a single-species genus. There is a lack of any euphausiid fossil material, so phylogenetic analysis has relied on comparative morphology and ontogeny and, more recently, genetic methods. Although details differ, the consensus of these approaches is that Meganyctiphanes is most closely related to the g

First Author: Tarling, Geraint

Attributed to: Gene function in Antarctic krill: determining the role of clock-genes in synchronized behavioural patterns funded by NERC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Biology of Northern Krill (2010)

Page Reference: 1-40

ISBN: 9780123813084