Want to buy Sea Hares!
December 5, 1998
From: Bill Rudman
I have just been reading the website of the NIH-Aplysia Resource Facility in Miami, Florida. I think the site has just been updated. It is at: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/sea-hares/ .
They produce Aplysia for laboratory use and last year shipped out over 25,000 animals! So if anyone wants Aplysia by the truckload have a look here. What really amazes me is nowhere could I find the name of the species they are selling!
They also have a newsletter called Slime Lines outlining their research work which can be read online. I have appended the first two paragraphs of their introduction for background information.
"The Aplysia Resource Facility at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences provides high quality, laboratory cultured Aplysia for biomedical researchers throughout the world. Originally located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the mariculture operation moved to its present facility on Virginia Key in 1989 and has operated under a contract from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 1994. In May 1995, the Resource became the "National Resource for Aplysia" under a grant (RR10294) from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Advances in the understanding of the larval development of Aplysia by Kreigstein, Castellucci and Kandel (1974) and the application of large-scale mariculture techniques by Tom Capo, manager of the facility, led to mass production in 1983. The facility's move to sub-tropical Miami allowed the high yield mariculture of the animal's main food, the red alga Gracilaria, ensuring a year round supply of animals. Over the past twelve months, the facility has shipped over 25,000 animals."
Bill Rudman.
Rudman, W.B., 1998 (Dec 5). Comment on Want to buy Sea Hares! by Bill Rudman. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/360Related messages
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