Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Documenting Open Circulation in Ghost Shrimp

      Marianne Niedzlek-Feaver

Supplemental Materials

  • Heart location narrated [mov]
  • Heart location, no sound, can see movement of gills dorsally, heart ventrally and even some movement in GI track [mov]
  • Good shot of beating heart, that it is contained in a space, sometimes called the pericardial cavity or more properly pericardial sinus, is evident. [mov]
  • In this movie, students can see the beating heart, some of the ligaments holding the heart in the pericardial “cavity” or sinus, as well as a major vessel leading from the heart. [mov]
  • In this movie, students begin tracing movement of hemolymph from heart into one of the posterior arteries.[mov]