HOME

About ERDG

News

Contact Us

Sponsors

Awards

Glossary

Search
Limulus Drawing
The Horseshoe Crab
Poems, Tales & ImagesCrab SightingsGet InvolvedCompany Store
Natural HistoryEvolutionAnatomyMedical UsesConservationResearch
Research

The Carl N. Shuster Jr. Ph.D. Collection

Anatomy
(Structure)
Physiology
(Function)
Natural History
(Ecology)
Geologic History
(Paelontology)
Basic & Applied
Research
Basic and Applied Research
The following listing represents books, papers and articles focused on Basic and Applied Research. Where indicated, these documents are available for download in pdf format.


Bang, F. B. "Finale." In Biomedical Applications of the Horseshoe Crab (Limulidae), edited by E. Cohen, 677–680. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc.,1979a.


Bang, F. B. "Ontogeny and phylogeny of response to gram-negative endotoxins among the marine invertebrates." In Biomedical Applications of the Horseshoe Crab (Limulidae), edited by E. Cohen, 109–123. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc.,1979b.


Blakenship, Karl. "Volunteers sought for horseshoe crabs survey." Bay Journal 5, no.3 (May 1995): 3.


Bowig, Liz. "Out for blood." The Baltimore Sun, 27 July 1992.


Brown, G. G. and D. L. Clapper. "Procedures for maintaining adults, collecting gametes, and culturing embryos and juveniles of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus." In Laboratory Animal Management: Marine Invertebrates. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1981.


Burger, J. "Heavy metals in the eggs and muscle of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) from Delaware Bay." Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 46 (1997): 279–287.


Byers, S. C., E. L. Mills, and P. L. Stewart. "A comparison of methods of determining organic carbon in marine sediments, with suggestions for a standard method." Hydrobiologia 58 (1978): 43–47.


Clark, A. H. "The Smithsonian Institution, its function and its future." Science 63 (1926): 147–157.


Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife. Delaware Bay trawl data (1997). Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, Delaware.


DeSylva, Donald P., Frederick A. Kalber Jr., and Carl N. Shuster, Jr. "Fishes and Ecological Conditions in the Shore Zone of the Delaware River Estuary, with Notes on Other Species Collected in Deeper Water." University of Delaware Marine Lab Information Series. Publication No.5 (1962).


Dunne, P., D. Sibley, C. Sutton, and W. Wander. "1982 aerial shorebird survey of Delaware Bay." Records of New Jersey Birds 8, no. 4 (1982): 68–75.


Groff, J. M. and L. Leibovitz. "A gill disease of Limulus polyphemus associated with triclad turbellarid worm infection." Biological Bulletin 163 (1982): 392.


Hock, C. W. "Decomposition of Chitin by marine bacteria." Biological Bulletin 79 (1940): 199–206.


Horseshoe Crab Technical Committee (HCTC). "Status of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) population of the Atlantic Coast." A report for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Washington, D.C. (1988).


Hubbs, C. L. and C. Hubbs. "An improved graphical analysis and comparison of series of examples." System Zool. 2, no. 2 (1953): 49–56, 92.


Jackson, Nancy L. and Karl F. Nordstrom. "Site specific controls on wind and wave processes and beach mobility on estuarine beaches in New Jersey, USA." Journal of Coastal Research 8, no.1 (1992): 88–98.


Kas'yanov, V. L. and J. D. Costlow. "Effect of the insecticide demilune on larval molting in the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)." Bio. Morya (Vladivost.) 10 (1984): 42–46.


Kerlinger, P. and D. Wiedner. "The economics of birding at Cape May, New Jersey." In Proceedings of the 2nd ecotourism symposium, Miami Beach, Florida, edited by J. Kassler. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1991.


Kersten, M. and T. Piersma. "High levels of energy expenditure in shorebirds: metabolic adaptations to an energetically expensive way of life." Ardea 75 (1987): 175–187.


Laughlin, R. B., Jr. and J. M. Neff. 1977. Fate and effects of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine ecosystems and organisms. Proceedings of a Symposium - Nov. 10-12, 1976, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington.


Laughlin, R. B. and J. M. Neff. "Interactive effects of temperature, salinity shock and chronic exposure to No. 2 fuel oil on survival, development rate and respiration of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus." In Fate and effects of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine organisms and ecosystems, edited by D. A. Wolff. Oxford: Pergammon Press, 1977.


Ludwig, Karen E. "Counting crabs." Beachcomber 14 June 1995 (Ocean City, Maryland).


Lutcavage, M. "The status of marine turtles in Chesapeake Bay and Virginia coastal waters." Master’s thesis, College of William and Mary, 1981.


Lutcavage, M. and J. A. Musick. "Aspects of the biology of sea turtles in Virginia." Copeia (1985): 449–456.


Maghini, M. K. R. "Availability of contaminants to migratory shorebirds consuming horseshoe crab eggs on Delaware Bay beaches." A publication of the Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Annapolis, Maryland (1996).


Maio, K. J., F. J. Margraf, and C. H. Hocutt. "Development of a sampling protocol to establish a population index for the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus." A report by the Maryland Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Princess Anne, Maryland (1998).


Mayer, A. G. "The effects of temperature upon tropical marine animals." Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Volume 6. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution Publications, 1914


McHugh, J. L. "Fisheries and fishery resources of New York Bight." NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular 401 (1977).


Michels, Stewart F. "Summary of trends in horseshoe crab abundance—Delaware." In Proceedings of the horseshoe crab forum: Status of the resource, edited by J. Farrell and C. Martin. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Sea Grant Publications, 1996 (DEL-SG-05-97).


Mikkelsen, T. The Secret in the Blue Blood. Beijing: Science Press, 1988.


Miller, Julie Ann and Christine Mlot. "Research update from the meeting in Chicago of the American Association for the advancement of science." BioScience 42, no. 6 (1992): 404–405.


Miyazaki, J-I., T. Isimoda, K. Sekiguchi, and T. Hirabayashi. "Comparative study of horseshoe crab tropomyosin." Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 93B (1989): 681–687.


Miyazaki, J-I., K. Sekiguchi, and T. Hirabayashi, T. "Application of an improved method of two-dimensional electrophoresis to the systematic study of horseshoe crabs." Biological Bulletin 172 (1987): 212–224.


Morreale, S. J. and E. A. Standora. "Occurrence, movement, and behavior of the Kemp's Ridley and other sea turtles in New York waters." Okeanos Ocean Research Foundation final report, April 1988–March 1993 (1993).


Munson, R. E. "Bait need of the eel and conch fisheries in New Jersey and Delaware as determined from questionnaires filled out by commercial fishermen in those fisheries." Unpublished data presented to the Delaware Bay Watermen's Association. Newport, New Jersey, 1998.


National Marine Fisheries Service. Harvest data. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center Database. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1998.


Neff, J. M. and C. S. Giam. "Effects of Aroclor 1016 and Halowax 1099 on juvenile horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus." In Physiological responses of marine biota to pollutants, edited by F. J. Vernberg, A. Calabrese, F. P. Thurberg, and W. B. Vernberg, 21–35. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1977.


New Jersey Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife. Comprehensive management plan for shorebirds on Delaware Bay. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Trenton, New Jersey, 1994.


Novitsky, T. J. "Discovery to commercialization: The blood of the horseshoe crab." Oceanus 27, no. 1 (1984): 13–18.


O'Connell, Thomas J. "1994 Instruction Kit - Procedures for surveying horseshoe crab spawning areas." Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Annapolis, Maryland, 1994.


O'Connell, Thomas J. "1995 Instruction Kit - Procedures for surveying horseshoe crab spawning areas." Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Annapolis, Maryland, 1995.


O'Connell, Thomas J. "The biology, fishery, and management of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) on Maryland’s Atlantic Coast." Paper presented at the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Ocean City, Maryland, 1995.


O'Connell, Thomas J. "Status of horseshoe crabs in Maryland." Paper presented at Horseshoe Crab Forum, February 1996.


O'Connell, Thomas J. "1996 Instruction Kit - Procedures for surveying horseshoe crab spawning areas." Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Annapolis, Maryland, 1996.


Palumbi, S. R. and B. A. Johnson. "A note on the influence of life-history stage on metabolic adaptation: the responses of Limulus eggs and larvae to hypoxia." In Physiology and biology of horseshoe crabs: Studies on normal and environmentally stressed animals, edited by J. Bonaventura et al., 115–124. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1982.


Pearson, F. C. and M. Weary. "The Limulus amoebocyte lysate test for endotoxin." BioScience 30 (1980): 461–464.


Petrocci, C. "Conchin gains momentum." American Fisherman 77, no.12 (1997): 26–28.


Ropes J. W., C. N. Shuster, Jr., L. O’Brien, and R. Mayo. "Data on the occurrence of horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus (L.), in NMFS-NEFC survey samples." Woods Hole Laboratory Reference Document no. 82-23 (1982): 1–40.


Rudloe, A. and A. E. Hernkind. "The effect of heavy bleeding on mortality of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the natural environment." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 42 (1983): 167–176.


Salmon, M. "Courtship, mating systems, and sexual selection in decapods." In Studies in adaptation: The behavior of higher crustacea, edited by S. Rebach and D.W. Dunham, 143–169. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1983.

Sargent, W. The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine. New York: Norton, 1987

Saunders, N. C., L. G. Kessler, and J. C. Avise. "Genetic variation and geographic differentiation in mitochondrial DNA of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus." Genetics 112 (1986): 613–627

Sekiguchi, K. and T. Nakamura. "Ecology of the extant horseshoe crabs." In Biomedical applications or the horseshoe crabs (Limulidae), edited by E. Cohen, 37–45. New York: Alan Liss, Inc., 1979.


Selander, R. K., S. Y. Yang, R. C. Lewontin, and W. E. Johnson. "Genetic variation in the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), a phylogentic ‘relic.’" Evolution 24, no. 2 (1970): 402–414.


Sharp, J. H. and M. L. Botton. "A contribution to the population biology of horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus (L.), in Delaware Bay." Estuaries 8, no. 4 (1985): 363–372.


Shields, Todd. "A concentration of crustaceans." The Washington Post, 2 July 1996, Section B1.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "Decimalization of English measure and computation with approximate data." Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 20 (1948): 233–259.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "Teaching computation with approximate data." The Mathematics Teacher 42, no. 3 (1949): 123–132.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "On morphometric and serological relationships within the Limulidae with particular reference to Limulus polyphemus (l.)." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1955. Also in Dissertation Abstracts 18, no.2 (1958a): 371–372


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "Horsefoot ‘Crab.’" Fishery resources of the Atlantic Coast, Scientific Committee, Biological Section, Leaflet Number 0. Mount Vernon, New York: ASMFC, 1961.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "Serological correspondences among horseshoe ‘crabs’ (Limulidae)." Zoologica 47, no1 (1962): 1–9.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. and M. L. Botton. "A contribution to the population biology of horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus (L.), in Delaware Bay." Estuaries 8, no.4 (1985): 363–372.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "Tracking horseshoe crabs." Underwater Naturalist (a bulletin of the American Littoral Society) 19, no. 1 (1991): 22–23.


Shuster, C. N. Jr. "An Introduction to Horseshoe Crabs and Biodiversity." Paper presented at the NJT4B MAD about Biodiversity Spring Conference at Reed Beach, New Jersey, 6 May 2000.


Strobel, Charles J. and A. Harry Brenowitz. "Effects of bunker C oil on juvenile horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus)." Estuaries 4, no. 2 (1981): 157–159.


Stunkard, Horace W. The asexual generations, life cycle, and systematic relations of Microphallus limuli (Trematoda: Digenea). Biological Bulletin 134 (1968): 332–343.


Sugita, H. "Immunological comparison of hemocyanins and their phylogenetic implications." In Biology of horseshoe crabs edited by K. Sekiguchi, 315-334. Tokyo: Science House Press, 1988.


Swan, Benjie Lynn. "1993 Instruction Kit - Methods of estimating the number of spawning horseshoe crabs on a specific beach or other area." Limuli Laboratories, Cape May, New Jersey, 1993.


Swan, B.L., W. R. Hall Jr., and C. N. Shuster Jr. 1993. Limulus spawning activity on Delaware Bay shores June 5, 1993. University of Delaware, Sea Grant Program, Lewes, Delaware. 4 p.


Thompson, M. "Assessments of the population biology and critical habitat for the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the South Atlantic Bight." Master’s thesis, Medical University of South Carolina, University of Charleston, 1998.


Titus, J. G., R. A. Park, S. P. Leatherman, J. R. Weggel, M. S. Greene, P. W. Mausel, S. Brown, C. Gaunt, M. Trehan, and G. Yohe. "Greenhouse effect and sea level rise: the cost of holding back the sea." Coastal Management 18 (1991): 171–204.


U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "Delaware Bay coastline, New Jersey and Delaware - reconnaissance report." Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991.


U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "Villas and vicinity, NJ - interim feasibility study, draft feasibility report and environmental assessment." Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997.


U.S. Bureau of Census and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "1996 national survey of fishing, hunting, and wildlife-associated recreation." U.S. Bureau of Census and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C., 1998.


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Planning Aid Report, Comprehensive Navigation Study, Main Channel Deepening Project, Delaware River from Philadelphia to the Sea." U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, New Jersey Field Office, Pleasantville, New Jersey, 1995.


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "1996 national and state economic impacts of wildlife watching." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., 1998.


Wenner, E. and M. Thompson. "Evaluation of Harvesting Impacts and Population Trends for Limulus polyphemus in South Carolina." A report to NOAA (re: MARFIN Grant Award N. NA87FF0431) by the Marine Resources Institute, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (2000).


Widener, Justin W. and Robert B. Barlow. "Decline of horseshoe crab population on Cape Cod." Biological Bulletin 197 (1999): 300–301.