{"id":25530,"date":"2016-03-25T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/parasitic-bopyrid-isopods\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:00:19","slug":"parasitic-bopyrid-isopods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/parasitic-bopyrid-isopods\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasitic bopyrid isopods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isopods (or sowbugs or pillbugs) are crustaceans; some live independently and others are parasitic. When a bopyrid egg hatches, the sexually undifferentiated (neither male nor female) larva may parasitize an intermediate host, such as a copepod, but in the next phase of its life, it latches on to a shrimp, squat lobster, or crab. Although some species attach to the abdomen of the host, others move inside the host\u2019s body. There the parasite develops into a female, feeding on the blood of the host and making a large lump on the host\u2019s side. A subsequently arriving bopyrid of that species, attracted by the female\u2019s pheromones, attaches to the female and becomes a miniscule, barely visible male. A male fights off further arrivals, so each host supports only one mated pair of bopyrids. A female broods her numerous eggs until they hatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mary F. Willson is a retired professor of ecology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isopods (or sowbugs or pillbugs) are crustaceans; some live independently and others are parasitic. When a bopyrid egg hatches, the sexually undifferentiated (neither male nor female) larva may parasitize an intermediate host, such as a copepod, but in the next phase of its life, it latches on to a shrimp, squat lobster, or crab. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":25531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}