Literature on Homarus americanus – American lobster
Agnalt, A.-L. 2008. Fecundity of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) off southwestern Norway after stock enhancement: do cultured females produce as many eggs as wild females? ICES Journal of Marine Science 65: 164-170.
Aiken, D.E., Waddy, S.L. and Mercer, S.M. 2004. Confirmation of external fertilization in te American lobster, Homaru americanus. Journal of Crustacean Biology 24(3): 474-480.
Barshaw, D.E. and Lavalli, K.L. 1988. Predation upon postlarval lobsters Homarus americanus by cunners Tautogolabrus adspersus and mud crabs Neopanope sayi on three different substrates: eelgrass, mud and rocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series 48: 119-123.
Barshaw, D.E., Able, K.W. and Heck, K.L., Jr. 1994. Salt marsh peat reefs as protection for postlarval lobsters Homarus americanus from fish and crab predators: comparisons with other substrates. Marine Ecology Progress Series 106: 203-206.
Bowlby, H.D., Hanson, J.M. and Hutchings, J.A. 2008. Stock structure and seasonal distribution patterns of American lobster, Homarus americanus, inferred through movement analyses. Fisheries Research 90: 279-288.
Bushmann, P.J. and Atema, J. 1997. Shelter sharing and chemical courtship signals in the lobster Homarus americanus. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 647-654.
Bushmann, P.J. and Atema, J. 2000. Chemically mediated mate location and evaluation in the lobster, Homarus americanus. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26(4): 883-899.
Comeau, M. and Benhalima, K. 2009. Internal organ pathology of wild American lobster (Homarus americanus) from eastern Canada affected with shell disease. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 257-269.
Comeau, M. and Savoie, F. 2001. Growth increment and molt frequency of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in the southwestern Gulf of St, Lawrence. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(4): 923-936.
Comeau, M. and Savoie, F. 2002. Maturity and reproductive cycle of the female American lobster, Homarus americanus, in te southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22(4): 762-774.
Conan, G.Y., Comeau, M. and Moriyasu, M. 2001. Are morphometrical approaches appropriate to establish size at maturity for male American lobster, Homarus americanus?. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(4): 937-947.
Cowan, D.F. 1991. The role of olfaction in courtship behavior of the American lobster Homarus americanus. Biological Bulletin 181: 402-407.
Cowan, D.F. and Atema, J. 1990. Moult staggering and serial monogamy in American lobsters, Homarus americanus. Animal Behaviour 39: 1199-1206.
Davis, A., Hanson, J.M., Watts, H. and MacPherson, H. 2004. Local ecological knowledge and marine fisheries research: the case of white hake (Urophycis tenuis) predation on juvenile American lobster (Homarus americanus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 1191-1201.
den Heyer, C.E., Chadwick, E.M.P. and Hutchings, J.A. 2009. Diffusion of American lobster (Homarus americanus) in Northumberland Strait, Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 659-671.
Derby, C.D. and Atema, J. 1982. The function of chemo- and mechanoreception in lobster (Homarus americanus) feeding behaviour. Journal of Experimental Biology 98: 317-327.
Engel, D.W. and Brouwer, M. 1986. Cadmium and copper methallothioneins in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Environmental Health Perspectives 65: 87-92.
Ennis, G.P. 1981. Fecundity of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, in Newfoundland waters. Fisheries Bulletin 79(4): 796-800.
Ennis, G.P. 1984. Territorial behavior of the American lobster Homarus americanus. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 113: 330-335.
Fogarty, M.J. and Gendron, L. Biological reference points for American lobster (Homarus americanus) populations: limits to exploitation and the precautionary approach. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 1392-1403.
Främmande Arter 2008. Amerikansk hummer (Homarus americanus). Fact-sheet available at http://www.frammandearter.se/5arter/pdf/Homarus_americanus.pdf(accessed on 10 March 2015).
Glenn, R.P. and Pugh, T.L. 2006. Epizootic shell disease in American lobster (Homarus americanus) in Massachusetts coastal waters: interactions of temperature, maturity, and intermolt duration. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(4): 639-645.
Gosselin, T., Sainte-Marie, B. and Bernatchez, L. 2005. Geographic variation of multiple paternity in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Molecular Ecology 14: 1517-1525.
Hanson, J.M. 2009. Predator-prey interactions of American Lobster (Homarus americanus) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 69-88.
Harding, G.C., Kenchington, E.L., Bird, C.J., Pezzack, D.S. and Landry, D.C. 1997. Genetic relationships among subpopulations of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) as revealed by random amplified polymorphic DNA. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 1762-1771.
Hedgecock, D., Nelson, K., Simons, J. and Shleser, R. 1977. Genic similarity of American and European species of the lobster Homarus. Biological Bulletin 152: 41-50.
Herrick, F.H. 1895. The American lobster: a study of its habits and development. Bulletin of the United States Fisheries Commission 15: 1-252.
Helluy, S.M. and Beltz, B.S. 1991. Embryonic development of the American lobster (Homarus americanus): Quantitative staging and characterization of an embryonic molt cycle. Biological Bulletin 180: 355-371.
Hodgins-Davis, A., Roberts, S., Cowan, D.F., Atema, J., Bennie, M., Avolio, C., Defaveri, J. and Gerlach, G. 2007. Characterization of SSRs from the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 330-332.
Hughes, G. and Beaumont, A.R. 2004. A potential method for discriminating between tissue from the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) and the American lobster (H. americanus). Crustaceana 77(3): 371-375.
Hughes, J.T: and Matthiessen, G.C. 1962. Observations on the biology of the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Limnology and Oceanography 7(3): 414-421.
Incze, L.S., Wale, R.A., Wolff, N., Wilson, C., Steneck, R., Annis, E., Lawton, P., Xue, . and Cen, Y. 2006. Early life istory and a modelling framework for lobster (Homarus americanus) populations in te Gulf of Maine. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(4): 555-564.
Incze, L., Xue, H., Wolff, N., Xu, D., Wilson, C., Steneck, R., Wahle, R., Lawton, P., Pettigrew, N. and Chen, Y. 2010. Connectivity of lobster (Homatus americanus) populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: part II. Coupled biophysical dynamics. Fisheries Oceanography 19(1): 1-20.
Jones, M.W., O'Reilly, P.T., McPherson, A.A., McParland, T.L., Armstrong, D.E., Cox, A.J., Spence, K.R., Kenchington, E.L., Taggart, C.T. and Bentzen, P. 2003. Development, characterisation, inheritance, and cross-species utility of American lobster (Homarus americanus) microsatellite and mtDNA PCR-RFLP markers. Genome 46: 59-69.
Jørstad, K.E., Farestveit, E. and Agnalt, A.-L. 2006. Amerikansk hummer i norske farvann – status og nye utfordringer. Kyst og Havbruk 2006. Kapitel 1 Forvaltning av kysten, pp. 33-35.
Jørstad, K.E., Prodohl, P.A., Agnalt, A.-L., Hughes, M., Farestveit, E. and Ferguson, A.F. 2007. Comparison of genetic and morphological methods to detect the presence of American lobsters, Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Astacidea: Nephropidae) in Norwegian waters. Hydrobiologia 590: 103-114.
Katz, C.H., Cobb, J.S. and Spaulding, M. 1994. Larval behavior, hydrodynamic transport, and potential offshore-to-inshore recruitment in the American lobster Homarus americanus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 103: 265-273.
Kittaka, J., Henocque, Y., Yamada, K. and Tabata, N. 1983. Experimental release of juvenile lobster at Koshiki Islands in South Japan. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 49(9): 1347-1354.
Lavallée, J., Hammell, K.L., Spangler, E.S. and Cawthorn, R.J. 2001. Estimated prevalence of Aerococcus viridans and Anophryoides haemophila in American lobsters Homarus americanus freshly captured in the waters of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 46: 231-236.
Lavalli, K.L. and Barshaw, D.E. 1986. Burrows protect postlarval lobsters Homarus americanus from predation by the non-burrowing cunner Tautogolabrus adspersus, but not from the burrowing mud crab Neopanope texani. Marine Ecology Progress Series 32: 13-16.
Lim, B.K., Sakurai, N., Sugiara, T. and Kittaka, J. 1997. Survival and growth of the American lobster Homarus americanus fed formulated feeds. Bulletin of Marine Science 61(1): 159-163.
MacCormack, T.J. and DeMont, M.E. 2003. Regional differences in allometric growth in Atlantic Canadian lobster (Homarus americanus). Journal of Crustacean Biology 23(2): 258-264.
Mangum, C.P. 1993. Hemocyanin subunit composition and oxygen binding in two species of lobster genus Homarus and their hybrids. Biological Bulletin 184: 105-113.
Miller, R.J., Sharp, G.J. and O'Brien, E.M. 2006. Laboratory experiments on artificial reefs for American lobsters. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(4): 621-627.
Novak, M. 2004. Diurnal activity in a group of Gulf of Maine decapods. Crustaceana 77: 603-620.
Obst, M., Funch, P. and Kristensen, R.M. 2006. A new species of Cycliophora from the mouthparts of the American lobster, Homarus americanus (Nephropidae, Decapoda). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 6: 83-97.
Pezzak, D.S. 1992. A review of lobster (Homarus americanus) landing trends in the Noerthwest Atlantic, 1847-86. Journal of Northwest Antlantic Fisheries Science 14: 115-127.
Rowe, S. 2001. Movement and harvesting mortality of American lobsters (Homarus americanus) tagged inside and outside no-take reserves in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 1336-1346.
Sainte-Marie, B. and Chabot, D. 2002. Ontogenetic shifts in natural diet during benthic stages of American lobster (Homarus americanus), off the Magdalen Islands. Fisheries Bulletin 100(1): 106-116.
Steneck, R.S. 2006. Is the American lobster, Homarus americanus, overfished? A review of overfishing with an ecologically based perspective. Bulletin of Marine Science 78(3): 607-632.
Stewart, J.E. and Marks, L.J. 1999. Gaffkemia, a bacterial disease of lobsters: Genus Homarus. ICES Identification Leaflets for Diseases and Parasites of Fish and Shellfish, Leaflet no. 52 (ed. G. Olivier), ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4pp.
Towle, D.W. and Smith, C.M. Gene discovery in Carcinus maenas and Homarus americanus via expressed sequence tags. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(6): 912-918.
Tremblay, M.J., MacDonald, C. and Claytor, R.R. 2009. Indicators of abundance and spatial distribution of lobsters (Homarus americanus) from standard traps. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 387-399.
Tully, O., Roantree, V. and Robinson, M. 2001. Maturity, fecundity and reproductive potential of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) in Ireland. Journal of te Marine Biological Association of te United Kingdom 81: 61-68.
van der Meeren, G.I., Chandrapavan, A. and Breithaupt, T. 2008. Sexual and aggressive interactions in a mixed species group of lobsters Homarus gammarus and H. americanus. Aquatic Biology 2: 191-200.
van der Meeren, G.I., Støttrup, J., Ulmestrand, M. and Knutsen, J.A. 2004. Forebyggelse av ny hummerart i nordiske farvande. Sluttrapport, Arbeidsgruppen for nordisk miljø- og fiskerisamarbeid. Nordisk Ministerråd, 29pp.
van der Meeren, G.I., Støttrup, J., Ulmestrand, M. and Knutsen, J.A. 2006. NOBANIS – Invasive alien species fact sheet – Homarus americanus. Available here (accessed on 10 March 2015).
Wahle, R.A. and Steneck, R.S. 1991. Recruitment habitats and nursery grounds of the American lobster Homarus americanus: a demographic bottleneck? Marine Ecology Progress Series 69: 231-243.
Wahle, R.A., Wilson, C., Parkhurst, M. and Bergeron, C.E. 2009. A vessel-deployed passive postlarval collector to assess settlement of the American lobster Homarus americanus. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 465-474.
Williams, P.J., Floyd, T.A. and Rossong, M.A. 2006. Agonistic interactions between invasive green crabs, Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus), and sub-adult American lobsters, Homarus americanus (Milne Edwards). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 329: 66-74.
Williams, P.J., MacSween, C. and Rossong, M. 2009. Competition between invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas) and American lobster (Homarus americanus). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43: 29-33.