The infection status of marine fish and cephalopods with Anisakis simplex third stage larva (L3) was studied over a period of 1 year. A total of 2,537 specimens, which consisted of 40 species of fish and 3 species of cephalopods, were purchased from the Cooperative Fish Market in Busan, Korea, from August 2006 to July 2007. They were examined for A. simplex L3 from the whole body cavity, viscer...

Cephalopods play an important role in the transfer of parasites through the food web. They are second and third intermediate hosts for larval stages of digeneans, cestodes, and nematodes. The final hosts are usually fishes, sea birds, and marine mammals (Hochberg, 1990). Nevertheless, the interactions of cephalopods and their parasites are still poorly understood, and almost nothing is know abo...

Survival in the deep sea depends on seeing others without being seen yourself. A recent study examined two switchable camouflage strategies in cephalopods: transparency and dark pigmentation.

Smart Skin Cephalopods are often known as masters of camouflage. Inspired by cephalopods, in article number 2105528, Caterina Lamuta, Xuan Song, and co-workers develop a self-morphing, stretchable smart skin containing embedded-printed electrodes actuated twisted spiral artificial muscles. The proposed self-morphing can find use wide range applications, such refreshable Braille displays, haptic...

from the point of view of "molecular biology"-the interactions of nucleic acid structure, protein structure and enzyme action in bringing about cell infection and virus replication. Enough is included on protein and nucleic acid chemistry, and on the biosynthesis of these substances in non-viral systems, to make the train of argument intelligible to the reader who has a good basis in science bu...

A quick glance at the recent cephalopod literature, or even at the chapters of this book, tells us that when we talk about cephalopod cognition we are really considering cognition in a handful of genera. There can be no argument that studies of these animals have led to remarkable results that have challenged the traditional view of invertebrate intelligence. Yet when we consider that less than...

Cephalopods play a key role in the marine environment but knowledge of their feeding habits is limited by lack of data. Here, we have developed a new tool to investigate their feeding ecology by combining the use of their predators as biological samplers together with measurements of the stable isotopic signature of their beaks. Cephalopod beaks are chitinous hard structures that resist digesti...