Investigating Morphometric & Physiological Maturity…

Program, Project, or Expedition Name:

Investigating Morphometric & Physiological Maturity Alongside Insulin-like Androgenic Gland Expression and Size of Male C. borealis in Southern New England

Data Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRX10532371[accn] and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRX10532370[accn]

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Institution	LMRCSC, UMCES
Principal Investigator	J. Sook Chung | chung@umces.edu | 410-234-8841
Funding Agency/Contract #	NOAA-LMRCSC/FY 2016 Award #NA16SEC4810007
Collection Start Date	08/01/2017
Objectives of Data Collection Effort	1. Sexual and adult morphometrics of the Jonah crabs by season. 2. Transcriptomic (RNASeq) data of Jonah crab androgenic glands.
Collection End Date	08/31/2020
Data Collectors Identifying Numbers	N/A
Ship or Other Platform Name	N/A
Geographic Location [Latitude(s)/longitude(s)]	39°17′22″N 76°36′55″W
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Data Parameters	N/A
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Observation Methodology	N/A
Instrument/Gear  Identification of Description	N/A
Analysis Methodology	RNASeq analysis
Data Processing/ Reduction Methodology	N/A
Explanations of Data Quality Flags	N/A
Citations of Relevant Publications and Grey Literature	Morphometric and physiological maturity of male Jonah crab, Cancer borealis Stimpson, 1859 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Cancridae), in southern New England, USA A Lawrence, BG Stevens, B Shank, JS Chung Journal of Crustacean Biology 41 (3), ruab030