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Seventh International Crustacean Congress (ICC7)
20-25 June, 2010, Qingdao, China

Symposium on
Symbiotic Crustaceans: Diversity, Ecology and Evolution

Rationale and Objective:
Crustacea is a group of aquatic invertebrates rich in symbionts, many of which are identified as parasites, commensals and mutualists of other animals and seaweed. Symbiosis became one of the main evolutionary trends in diverse groups of crustaceans, such as cirripeds, copepods, caridean and alpheid shrimps, pinnotherid and porcellanid crabs, isopods and amphipods. Recent studies have demonstrated a key role of symbiotic crustaceans in the structuring and functioning of important ecosystems such as coral reefs and hydrothermal vents. It could be shown that long-lasting associations of crustaceans with their hosts have led to the evolution of diverse closely related and difficult to identify species and sibling species. It became clear that the diversity of symbiotic crustaceans is still insufficiently investigated and that systematic studies of symbiotic crustaceans require new approaches. We believe that a symposium on symbiotic crustaceans hosted by the ICC7 in Qingdao will initiate an interesting communication among scientists applying different methodologies for their work in different fields (taxonomy, development, morphology, behavior, physiology, genetics and ecology). Experts and young researches would be provided with a platform to present their results and discuss future approaches in the fascinating study of symbiotic crustacean relationships that seems to almost only have started.

Organizing Committee of Symposium:

Viatcheslav IVANENKO, Moscow State University, Russia

Temir BRITAYEV, A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology & Evolution, 
RAS, Russia

Organization:

The list of symposium and related session speakers are in preparation. Poster presentations are welcome.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE is April 15, 2010 via Internet http://www.crustacea.org.cn/7th/login_regist.html  .

TITLE SUBMISSION DEADLINE is “as soon as possible” via email to Viatcheslav Ivanenko: Ivanenko@mail.bio.msu.ru

Potential Symposium Speakers and Tentative Titles

  1. Ju-Shey HO (California State Univ., USA)
    Species diversity of Neoergasilus (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Ergasilidae) in the Far East and the development of evolutionary success in Neoergasilus  japonicus (Harada, 1930)

  2. Susumu OHTSUKA (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
    Planktonic adults of copepods parasitic on fish: accidental occurrence or a new mode of life?

  3. Hans-Uwe DAHMS (Sangmyung Univ., Korea) Nozomu IWASAKI (Kochi Univ., Japan)
    Reproductive biology of Kushia zosteraphila Harris & Iwasaki, 1996 (Porcellidiidae, Harpacticoida, Copepoda) with a review on copepods obligatory associated with macroalgae

  4. Viktor MIKHEEV (Institute of Ecology & Evolution, RAS, Russia), Anna PASTERNAK ((Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Russia)
    An interplay between ectoparasitic crustaceans Argulus spp. (Branchiura) and fish: parasites use and modify the behaviour of their hosts

  5. Danny TANG (Hiroshima Univ., Japan), Kazuya NAGASAWA (Hiroshima Univ., Japan), Makio YANAGISAWA (Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan)
    Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright, 1876) and the whale shark: solving a 134 year-old copepod cold case

  6. Annemarie AVENANT-OLDEWAGE (Univ. of Johannesburg, South Africa)
    On the morphology of parasitic Copepoda and Branchiura in relation to their feeding and the damage inflicted

  7. Viatcheslav IVANENKO (Moscow State Univ., Russia)
    New primitive genera of  crustacean copepods of the order Siphonostomatoida from deep-water sunken woods of the Pacific Ocean, their relationship with other siphonostomatoids

  8. Temir BRITAYEV, Ivan MARIN, Viktor MIKHEEV (Institute of Ecology & Evolution, RAS, Russia)
    Sex and age related differences in agonistic behaviour of a symbiotic snapping shrimp Racilius compressus

  9. Ching Long LIN (National Chiayi Univ.)
    Title to be confirmed

  10. Ione MADINABEITIA (Hiroshima Universtiy, Japan)
    Mysterious copepods (Porcilostomatoida: Philichthyidae) Parasitic in the Lateral Line System of Japanese Sparid Fish.

Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2010