Its "cigar" is in fact a parasitic crustacean known as a copepod, but no one knows what the blobfish does with its comical nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Wonders Await Us] Reference

Plentiful algae amplify the population of a tiny shrimp-like creature called a copepod - in particular, a kind called Eurytemora.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

A closeup of Eurytemora, a kind of copepod that serves as a reservoir for the cholera bacterium.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

They decided to check things out much to the chagrin of the copepod and seals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Guide to Paid Search in the UK] Reference

This report describes the chromosome organization in three species of the copepod genus Cyclops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

Distribution of and feeding by the copepod Pseudocalamus under fast ice during the arctic spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic] Reference

The copepod Calanus finmarchicus contributes 50% of the biomass of sampled plankton in the North Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past variability in Arctic marine systems] Reference

When the coracidium is ingested by a copepod crustacean it penetrates their gut wall and develops into a procercoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platyhelminthes] Reference

It still must pass through its life cycle, but its intermediate host need not be one species of snail, fish, or copepod.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

copepods carry many parasites and diseases that can cause death in humans - and all you have to do is eat or drink the copepod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustacea] Reference

With paid search, the copepod and seals found an enormous, scrumptious food supply that would keep their bellies full for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Guide to Paid Search in the UK] Reference

The copepod and seals were forced to eat off of the leftovers (tail terms) which the sharks didn†™ t want to waste their time with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Guide to Paid Search in the UK] Reference

When the copepod is eaten by a fish the procercoid migrates to striated muscle of the fish where it transforms into the plerocercoid stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platyhelminthes] Reference

If you will be my rotifer, then I will be your copepod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Courant blogs] Reference

A tiny copepod collected this year from the Atlantic depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference

A copepod lives in the water and doesn't have fins and scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Courant blogs] Reference

The Talmud exempts things you can't see, but you can see a copepod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Courant blogs] Reference

Reorganization of North Atlantic marine copepod diversity and climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Each approach was designed to rule out other causes of copepod mortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

New York realized this, and sales of copepod-catching water filters boomed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Courant blogs] Reference

The eye maggot of sprat Lernaeenicus sprattae, a parasitic copepod on its host.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Regions with high boat traffic exhibited a higher occurrence of copepod carcasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

The specimens showed no esophagus or stomach but remnants of a massive copepod feast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

What looks like an ancient gold treasure is actually a tiny copepod (shown magnified).    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Almost half of all known copepod species are either parasitic or commensal with other organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

The crustacean was among 680 copepod specimens -- most new to science -- that were collected during a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"Regions with high boat traffic exhibited a higher occurrence of copepod carcasses," Ms Bickel told BBC News.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

For example, if a copepod goes into a coffee maker and through the coffee and through the filter, it is not unclean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Courant blogs] Reference

"What happens is that even more fluid ends up being carried by a copepod, relatively speaking, than would be carried by a whale.".    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Tiny copepod crustaceans form another group of deep sea inhabitants important because of both their species richness and sheer abundance.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Microscope photo of a copepod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plankton] Reference

680 specimens of fly-like copepod, only seven of which could be identified.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

2 hr 33 min ago, -0/+3 "Fully 99 percent of some 680 copepod specimens collected in the deep sea census were new to science.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

I found my copepod!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference