Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Egg Identification

[Lourie]

[color="#ff0000"]anybody who can help me is welcomed...



i need help in identifying the eggs of the squid Sepioteuthis lessoniana.. i badly needed some assistance in identifying the squid eggs used in my undergraduate thesis study.. Please give me specific description of S. lessoniana eggs. or identify the picture of squid eggs attached herein.. thank you[/color]

[Jazman]

[quote name='Lourie' post='13702' date='Feb 19 2009, 04:33 AM'][color="#ff0000"]anybody who can help me is welcomed...



i need help in identifying the eggs of the squid Sepioteuthis lessoniana.. i badly needed some assistance in identifying the squid eggs used in my undergraduate thesis study.. Please give me specific description of S. lessoniana eggs. or identify the picture of squid eggs attached herein.. thank you[/color][/quote]



I am not a squid researcher but I am a scientist so I'll see what I can find out. I would have thought that if you are preparing a thesis on squid you would have access to a lot of related research material, but anyway..................



[url="ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac479e/AC479E18.pdf"]ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac479e/AC479E18.pdf[/url]



"Egg capsules containing 3-7 eggs are finger shaped and attached in clusters to seaweeds, twigs, stones...."



[url="http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/pdf/5994.pdf"]http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/pdf/5994.pdf[/url]



It seems that there are differences between egg cases of wild-caught and lab-grown squid.



[url="http://www.seadb.univpm.it/334_en_Bigfin-reef-squid-Sepioteuthis-lessoniana_503.htm#334"]http://www.seadb.univpm.it/334_en_Bigfin-r...ana_503.htm#334[/url]



Photo of eggs.



[url="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/summary/117345737/SUMMARY"]http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin...7345737/SUMMARY[/url]



This book might be useful.



Do you still have some of the eggs? Although you can identify a lot of organisms by physical characteristics, squid eggs all look very similar to me, I think to be sure of the species you might need to perform PCR or western blotting.

[glen]

Hey Jazman, I think you could write a thesis on your weekends!! hahaha

[Jazman]

LOL......NOT! Theses are evil beasts, stay away from them if you can! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />