Because horseshoe crab blood is used to ensure the sterility of vaccines and because the COVID-19 vaccine is of particular importance to us, the 2019 article has garnered a lot of regional and national interest including interviews for PBS, Quebec Science, and the Union Leader. The recent 2020 article on Biomedical Bleeding is expected to receive a lot of attention as well. His lab is currently investigating The effects of environmental toxins on Horseshoe crab behavior as well as the development of horseshoe crab biological rhythms. While COVID-19 precluded some of the summer activity in the Chabot lab, four undergraduates and a graduate student are returning this week to begin their research on these and other topics in the lab and in the field.
Recent Publications
2020 The relative influence of nature versus nurture on the expression of circatidal rhythms in the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. TN Thomas, WH Watson, C Chabot. MEPS. accepted.
2020, Temperature and salinity preferences of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus). Helen Cheng, Vilma Vaattovaara, Meghan Connelly, Brianna Looney, Christopher C. Chabot, Winsor H. Watson III. Accepted. Ed John Tancredi. Global Perspectives on Biology, Conservation, and Management of Horseshoe Crabs, Springer Nature. Accepted.
2020, Effects of the biomedical bleeding process on the behavior and hemocyanin levels of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus Polyphemus. Accepted. Fisheries Bulletin. doi: 10.7755/FB.118.3.2
2019, Effects of the biomedical bleeding process on the behavior of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in its natural habitat. Meghan Owings, Christopher Chabot, Winsor Watson III. Biol Bull. 236:203-223.
Recent Grants
2016-2018, $180,000, Biomedical bleeding effects of horseshoe crabs. NOAA, NH SeaGrant.
