کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4397762 1305905 2007 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Vertical movement of mud crab megalopae (Scylla serrata) in response to light: Doing it differently down under
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم آبزیان
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Vertical movement of mud crab megalopae (Scylla serrata) in response to light: Doing it differently down under
چکیده انگلیسی

Selective tidal-streaming is a model frequently used to explain how planktonic larvae invade estuaries. The ability of larvae to move vertically in the water column to selectively ride favourable currents and maintain ground gained is critical to this process. The mud crab (Scylla serrata) is a widely distributed, commercially and recreationally important portunid crab but little is known about its estuarine recruitment mechanisms or the vertical migration behaviour of its megalopae. In studies of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), important factors identified in the recruitment mechanism include altered vertical swimming behaviours in estuarine and offshore water and an endogenous circadian rhythm. Using laboratory experiments we examined the vertical displacement response of mud crab megalopae to illumination in estuarine and offshore water during the day and the night. Mud crab megalopae released into 1 m high towers swam higher when illuminated than when in darkness. This behaviour was repeated during the day and the night and in offshore and estuarine water. Given the apparent indifference to water type and the fact that mud crab megalopae are rarely caught in estuaries, we propose the model that these crabs do not invade estuaries as megalopae, but settle and metamorphose into small crabs on the coastal shelf before moving along the sea bed into estuarine habitats.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology - Volume 341, Issue 2, 5 March 2007, Pages 196–203
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